The orangefin shiner (''Notropis ammophilus'') is a species of

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in the genus '' Notropis''. It is widely distributed in the Mobile basin, below the

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and

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, with disjunct populations occur in the Yellow Creek system of the

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drainage in northern Mississippi, in the headwaters of the Hatchie River system in northern Mississippi and southwestern Tennessee, and in the Skuna River system of the Yazoo drainage in northern Mississippi.

References

* Robert Jay Goldstein, Rodney W. Harper, Richard Edwards: ''American Aquarium Fishes''. Texas A&M University Press 2000, , p. 87 () * Notropis Fish described in 1990 {{Notropis-stub