Rocky shiner
| Rocky shiner | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| 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
[edit]- ↑ 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.
- Robert Jay Goldstein, Rodney W. Harper, Richard Edwards: American Aquarium Fishes. Texas A&M University Press 2000, ISBN 978-0-89096-880-2, p. 111 (restricted online copy, p. 111, at Google Books)
- Rocky shiner on FishBase