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Notropis petersoni

Notropis petersoni (Source)

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Cypriniformes
Subordo: Cyprinoidei

Familia: Leuciscidae
Subfamilia: Leuciscinae
Genus: Notropis
Species: Notropis petersoni
Name

Notropis petersoni Fowler, 1942
Synonyms

Notropis waccamanus Fowler, 1942
Notropis williami Fowler, 1945

References

Notropis petersoni in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names
English: Coastal shiner

The coastal shiner (Notropis petersoni) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis. It is endemic to the United States where it is found in Atlantic and Gulf slope drainages from the Cape Fear and Waccamaw river drainages, North Carolina, south to southern Florida, and west to Jordan River in Mississippi.
References

NatureServe (2013). "Notropis petersoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T202317A18233183. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202317A18233183.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.

Robert Jay Goldstein, Rodney W. Harper, Richard Edwards: American Aquarium Fishes. Texas A&M University Press 2000, ISBN 978-0-89096-880-2, p. 97 (restricted online copy, p. 97, at Google Books)
Coastal shiner on FishBase

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