Luxilus

Luxilus
Striped shiners (Luxilus chrysocephalus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
Subfamily:	Pogonichthyinae
Genus:	Luxilus Rafinesque, 1820 [1]
Type species
Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820 [1]
Species
See text
Synonyms [1]
PlargyrusRafinesque, 1820 Hypsolepis Agassiz, 1854 Coccogenia Cockerell & Callaway 1909

Luxilus is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. ^[1] The species in this genus are found in North America. They are commonly known as highscale shiners.

Species

Luxilus contains the following valid species: ^[2]

• Luxilus albeolus (D. S. Jordan, 1889) (white shiner)
• Luxilus cardinalis (Mayden, 1988) (cardinal shiner)
• Luxilus cerasinus (Cope, 1868) (crescent shiner)
• Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820 (striped shiner)
• Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817) (common shiner)
• Luxilus pilsbryi (Fowler, 1904) (duskystripe shiner)
• Luxilus zonatus (Putnam, 1863) (bleeding shiner)

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Pogonichthyinae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 12 March 2025.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Luxilus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 13 March 2025.

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Luxilus". FishBase . August 2011 version.