Rocky shiner

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Rocky shiner
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Leuciscidae
Subfamily: Pogonichthyinae
Genus: Notropis
Species:
N. suttkusi
Binomial name
Notropis suttkusi

The rocky shiner (Notropis suttkusi) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish beloinging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. It is endemic to the United States where the species is known from tributaries of the Red River draining the Ouachita Mountains in southeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Arkansas, including several localities in the Kiamichi, Little and Muddy Boggy rivers. Its range extends west to the Blue River in Oklahoma, and east to the Cossatot River in Arkansas.

References

  1. NatureServe (2013). "Notropis suttkusi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2013: e.T202330A19033398. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202330A19033398.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.