Silverband shiner

The silverband shiner (Notropis shumardi) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis. It is endemic to the United States, where it is found in the Mississippi River and main tributaries in lower Ohio, Arkansas, Louisiana to Illinois and South Dakota, and several Gulf slope drainages.

Silverband shiner
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Leuciscidae
Subfamily: Pogonichthyinae
Genus: Notropis
Species:
N. shumardi
Binomial name
Notropis shumardi
(Girard, 1856)
Synonyms
  • Alburnops shumardi Girard, 1856
  • Alburnops illecebrosus Girard, 1856
  • Notropis chamberlaini Evermann, 1898
  • Notropis brazosensis Hubbs & Bonham, 1951

References
  1. NatureServe (2016). "Notropis shumardi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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