Highscale shiner | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Leuciscidae |
Subfamily: | Pogonichthyinae |
Genus: | Alburnops |
Species: | A. hypsilepis |
Binomial name | |
Alburnops hypsilepis | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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The highscale shiner (Alburnops hypsilepis) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. [2] It is endemic to the United States where it is found in sandy-bottomed tributary streams of the Chattahoochee and Flint river systems in Georgia and eastern Alabama. [3] They were also historically found in the uppermost reaches of the Savannah river drainage. [4]