Tennessee shiner
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| Notropis leuciodus (Cope, 1868) |
The Tennessee shiner (Notropis leuciodus), is a North American species of temperate freshwater fish belonging to the Notropis genus of the cyprinid family. The natural geographic range is limited to the Green, Cumberland, and Tennessee River drainages in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.[1]
The Tennessee shiner reaches a maximum length of 8.2cm.[2]
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[edit] References
- ^ Page, Lawrence M. and Brooks M. Burr (1991), Freshwater Fishes, p. 142-143, Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY. ISBN 0-395-91091-9
- ^ "Notropis leuciodus". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. March 2007 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2007.
