Coastal shiner

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Coastal shiner
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Clade: Pogonichthyinae
Genus: Notropis
Species:
N. petersoni
Binomial name
Notropis petersoni
Fowler, 1942

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.

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References

  1. 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.