Notropis leuciodus

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Osteichthyes
Classis: Actinopterygii
Subclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Superordo: Ostariophysi
Ordo: Cypriniformes
Subordo: Cyprinoidea
Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Leuciscinae
Genus: Notropis
Species: Notropis leuciodus

Name

Notropis leuciodus (Cope, 1868)

Vernacular Names
English: Tennessee Shiner

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The Tennessee shiner (Notropis leuciodus), is a North American species of temperate freshwater fish belonging to the Notropis genus of the cyprinid family. The natural geographic range is limited to the Green, Cumberland, and Tennessee River drainages in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.

The Tennessee shiner reaches a maximum length of 82 millimetres (3.2 in).

References

* Robert Jay Goldstein, Rodney W. Harper, Richard Edwards: American Aquarium Fishes. Texas A&M University Press 2000, ISBN 9780890968802, p. 110 (restricted online copy at Google Books)
* Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2010). "Notropis leuciodus" in FishBase. February 2010 version.