Lythrurus

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Finescale shiners
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Rosefin shiner (Lythrurus ardens)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Leuciscidae
Subfamily: Pogonichthyinae
Genus: Lythrurus
D. S. Jordan, 1876 [1]
Type species
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Species

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Lythrurus, the finescale shiners, is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. The fishes in this genus are found in North America.

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Taxonomy

Lythrurus was first proposed as a genus in 1876 by the American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan with Semotilus diplemia as its type species. [1] S. diplemia had been formally described in 1820 by the French polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. However, S. diplemia is now regarded as a synonym of Chrosomus erythrogaster [2] and in 1884 Jordan proposed Notropis lythrurus as the type species, this taxon is a synonym of Notropis umbratilis. If S. diplemia is the type species then Lythrurus is a synonym of Chrosomus and if this taxon is a valid genus then a new name is needed for this taxon. This genus is classified within the subfamily Pogonichthyinae of the family Leuciscidae. [1]

Species

Lythrurus contains teh following valid species: [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Pogonichthyinae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 16 March 2025.
  2. 1 2 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Lythrurus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 16 March 2025.


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