''Notropis'' is a genus of

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in the family

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. They are known commonly as eastern shiners.''Notropis''
Système canadien d’information sur la biodiversité (SCIB) They are native to North America, and are the continent's second largest genus.McAllister, C.T., Layher, W.G., Robison, H.W. & Buchanan, T.M. (2009)
New Distribution Records for Three Species of ''Notropis'' (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from Large Rivers of Arkansas.
''Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science, 63: 192-194.'' A 1997 phylogenetic analysis placed the genus in a

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with ''

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'', '' Cyprinella'', '' Phenacobius'', ''

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'' and '' Rhinichthys''.Simons, A.M. & Mayden, R. (1997)
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of the genus is still unclear. It has not been confirmed to be

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. While it has been divided into several subgenera and species groups, the relationships between the taxa are not yet understood.Cashner, M.F., Piller, K.R. & Bart, H.L. (2011)
Phylogenetic relationships of the North American cyprinid subgenus ''Hydrophlox''.
''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 59 (3): 725-735.''

Characteristics

Members of the genus ''Notropis'' have eight dorsal rays and usually have no barbel (with the exception of Redeye chub). Scales for most species are not usually that much taller than they are wide. Their scales are usually not diamond shaped. Their intestines are short and usually have one loop at the front.

Species

There are currently 88 recognized species in this genus: Notropis girardi

* '' Notropis aguirrepequenoi'' Contreras-Balderas & Rivera-Tiellery, 1973 (Soto la Marina shiner) * '' Notropis albizonatus''

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, 1994 (Palezone shiner) * '' Notropis alborus'' C. L. Hubbs &

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, 1947 (Whitemouth shiner) * '' Notropis altipinnis'' ( Cope, 1870) (Highfin shiner) * ''

Notropis amabilis The Texas shiner (''Notropis amabilis'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Notropis''. It is found in the Colorado River to Rio Grande River, Rio Grande drainage from Texas and northeastern Mexico and the Rio Salado (Mexico), Rio Sala ...

'' ( Girard, 1856) (Texas shiner) * ''

Notropis amecae The Ameca shiner (''Notropis amecae'') is a species of cyprinid fish in the family Cyprinidae. The Ameca shiner was described in 1986 from upper parts of the Ameca River drainage in Jalisco, Mexico. Although already feared extinct by 1969, and li ...

'' Chernoff &

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, 1986 (Ameca shiner) * ''

Notropis ammophilus The orangefin shiner (''Notropis ammophilus'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus '' Notropis''. It is widely distributed in the Mobile basin, below the Fall Line in Alabama and Mississippi, with disjunct populations occur in the Yello ...

'' Suttkus &

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, 1990 (Orangefin shiner) * '' Notropis amoenus'' ( C. C. Abbott, 1874) (Comely shiner) * ''

Notropis anogenus The pugnose shiner (''Notropis anogenus'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Notropis''. It is in the family Cyprinidae which consists of freshwater carps and minnows. Cyprinidae is the largest fish family which consists of about 369 ...

'' S. A. Forbes, 1885 (Pugnose shiner) * ''

Notropis ariommus The popeye shiner (''Notropis ariommus'') is a North American species of freshwater cyprinid fish. Geographic distribution The popeye shiner is native to the United States, particularly the Ohio River basin and the Tennessee River drainage, sp ...

'' ( Cope, 1867) (Popeye shiner) * '' Notropis asperifrons'' Suttkus &

, 1955 (Burrhead shiner) * ''

Notropis atherinoides The emerald shiner (''Notropis atherinoides'') is one of hundreds of small, silvery, slender fish species known as shiners. The identifying characteristic of the emerald shiner is the silvery emerald color on its sides. It can grow to 3.5 ...

'' Rafinesque, 1818 (Emerald shiner) * ''

Notropis atrocaudalis The blackspot shiner (''Notropis atrocaudalis'') is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to the United States and found in the lower Brazos River drainage of eastern Texas east to the Calcasieu River drainage of sou ...

'' Evermann, 1892 (Blackspot shiner) *

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'' Notropis aulidion'' Chernoff &

, 1986 (Durango shiner) * '' Notropis baileyi'' Suttkus &

, 1955 (Rough shiner) * '' Notropis bairdi'' C. L. Hubbs & Ortenburger, 1929 (Red River shiner) * '' Notropis bifrenatus'' ( Cope, 1867) (Bridle shiner) * ''

Notropis blennius The river shiner (''Notropis blennius'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus '' Notropis''. It is found in the United States and Canada, where it inhabits the Hudson Bay basin from Alberta to Manitoba, south through the Red Red River in ...

'' ( Girard, 1856) (River shiner) * '' Notropis boops'' C. H. Gilbert, 1884 (Bigeye shiner) * '' Notropis boucardi'' ( Günther, 1868) (Balsas shiner) * ''

Notropis braytoni The Tamaulipas shiner (''Notropis braytoni'') is a small North American freshwater fish, living in the Rio Grande drainage in Texas and northern Mexico. References * Tamaulipas Tamaulipas (), officially the Free and Sovereign State ...

'' D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1896 (Tamaulipas shiner) * '' Notropis buccula'' F. B. Cross, 1953 (Smalleye shiner) * '' Notropis buchanani'' Meek, 1896 (Ghost shiner) * '' Notropis cahabae'' Mayden & Kuhajda, 1989 (Cahaba shiner) * '' Notropis calabazas''

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& Mercado-Silva, 2004 (Calabazas shiner) * '' Notropis calientis'' D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1899 (Yellow shiner) * '' Notropis candidus'' Suttkus, 1980 (Silverside shiner) * '' Notropis chalybaeus'' ( Cope, 1867) (Ironcolor shiner) * '' Notropis chihuahua'' Woolman, 1892 (Chihuahua shiner) * '' Notropis chiliticus'' ( Cope, 1870) (Redlip shiner) * '' Notropis chlorocephalus'' ( Cope, 1870) (Greenhead shiner) * '' Notropis chrosomus'' ( D. S. Jordan, 1877) (Rainbow shiner) * '' Notropis cumingii'' ( Günther, 1868) (Atoyac chub) * '' Notropis cummingsae'' G. S. Myers, 1925 (Dusky shiner) * '' Notropis dorsalis'' (

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, 1854) (Bigmouth shiner) * '' Notropis edwardraneyi'' Suttkus & Clemmer, 1968 (Fluvial shiner) * '' Notropis girardi'' C. L. Hubbs & Ortenburger, 1929 (Arkansas River shiner) * ''

Notropis grandis The Zacapu shiner (''Notropis grandis'') is a small North American freshwater fish, where it is known only from the Zacapu Lagoon and its outlet in Michoacán, Mexico. The Zacapu shiner is a member of the '' Notropis calientis'' species complex a ...

'' Domínguez-Domínguez, Pérez-Rodríguez, Escalera-Vázquez & Doadrio, 2009 (Zacapu shiner) * '' Notropis greenei'' C. L. Hubbs & Ortenburger, 1929 (Wedgespot shiner) * ''

Notropis harperi Redeye chub (''Notropis harperi'') is a species of cyprinid Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is t ...

'' (Fowler, 1941), ( Redeye chub) * ''

Notropis heterodon The blackchin shiner (''Notropis heterodon'') is an abundant North American species of freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae. Described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1865, it is not a well-known species. It is a close relative of the blacknose ...

'' ( Cope, 1865) (Blackchin shiner) * ''

Notropis heterolepis The blacknose shiner (''Notropis heterolepis'') is a species of fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae. Description The blacknose shiner is a soft-rayed species up to 9.8 cm with toothless jaws, but gill arches that contain one or two ro ...

'' C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1893 (Blacknose shiner) * '' Notropis hudsonius'' (

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Notropis hypsilepis The highscale shiner (''Notropis hypsilepis'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Notropis''. It is endemic to the United States where it is found in sandy substrate tributary streams of the Chattahoochee and Flint river systems in Ge ...

'' Suttkus &

, 1955 (Highscale shiner) * ''

Notropis jemezanus The Rio Grande shiner (''Notropis jemezanus'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Mexico and the United States. References Rio Grande The Rio Grande ( and ), known in Mexico as the Río Bravo de ...

'' ( Cope, 1875) (Rio Grande shiner) * '' Notropis leuciodus'' ( Cope, 1868) (Tennessee shiner) * '' Notropis longirostris'' ( O. P. Hay, 1881) (Longnose shiner) * '' Notropis lutipinnis'' ( D. S. Jordan & Brayton, 1878) (Yellowfin shiner) * '' Notropis maculatus'' ( O. P. Hay, 1881) (Taillight shiner) * '' Notropis marhabatiensis'' Domínguez-Domínguez, Pérez-Rodríguez, Escalera-Vázquez & Doadrio, 2009 (Maravatío shiner) * '' Notropis megalops'' ( Girard, 1856) Conway, K.W. & Kim, D. (2016): Redescription of the Texas Shiner ''Notropis amabilis'' from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico with the reinstatement of ''N. megalops'' (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). ''Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 26 (4): 305-340.'' * ''

Notropis mekistocholas The Cape Fear shiner (''Notropis mekistocholas'') is a North American species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to the central part of the state of North Carolina in the southeastern United States, and is only found in t ...

'' Snelson, 1971 (Cape Fear shiner) * '' Notropis melanostomus'' Bortone, 1989 (Blackmouth shiner) * '' Notropis micropteryx'' ( Cope, 1868) (Highland shiner) * '' Notropis moralesi'' F. de Buen, 1955 (Papaloapan chub) * '' Notropis nazas'' Meek, 1904 (Nazas shiner) * '' Notropis nubilus'' ( S. A. Forbes, 1878) (Ozark minnow) *

Notropis orca The phantom shiner (''Notropis orca'') is an extinct species of fish. It was once endemic to the Rio Grande basin and ranged from central New Mexico to southernmost Texas and adjacent Tamaulipas. It was once found in the warm water reaches of the ...

'' Woolman, 1894 (Phantom shiner) * '' Notropis ortenburgeri'' C. L. Hubbs, 1927 (Kiamichi shiner) * '' Notropis oxyrhynchus'' C. L. Hubbs & Bonham, 1951 (Sharpnose shiner) * ''

Notropis ozarcanus The Ozark shiner (''Notropis ozarcanus'') is a species of freshwater cyprinid fish endemic to the United States where it is found in the Ozark Uplands in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, inhabiting the White and Black Black is a c ...

'' Meek, 1891 (Ozark shiner) * '' Notropis percobromus'' ( Cope, 1871) (Carmine shiner) * ''

Notropis perpallidus The peppered shiner or colorless shiner (''Notropis perpallidus'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to the United States where it is found in the Red and Ouachita river drainages in southeastern Oklahoma an ...

'' C. L. Hubbs & J. D. Black, 1940 (Peppered shiner) * ''

Notropis petersoni The coastal shiner (''Notropis petersoni'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus '' Notropis''. It is endemic to the United States where it is found in Atlantic and Gulf slope drainages from the Cape Fear and Waccamaw river drainages, Nor ...

'' Fowler, 1942 (Coastal shiner) * ''

Notropis photogenis The silver shiner (''Notropis photogenis'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Notropis''. It is found in the United States and Canada where it inhabits much of the Ohio River basin south to northern Georgia in the Tennessee River drai ...

'' ( Cope, 1865) (Silver shiner) * '' Notropis potteri'' C. L. Hubbs & Bonham, 1951 (Chub shiner) * '' Notropis procne'' ( Cope, 1865) (Swallowtail shiner) * '' Notropis rafinesquei'' Suttkus, 1991 (Yazoo shiner) * ''

Notropis rubellus The rosyface shiner (''Notropis rubellus'') is a small fresh water fish of the minnow and carp family (Cyprinidae). It is native to eastern North America. Description The species can grow up to . They have a fusiform body shape with silvery si ...

'' (

, 1850) (Rosyface shiner) * '' Notropis rubricroceus'' ( Cope, 1868) (Saffron shiner) * ''

Notropis rupestris The bedrock shiner (''Notropis rupestris'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus '' Notropis''. It is endemic to the United States, where it inhabits the lower Caney Fork system and nearby tributaries of the central Cumberland River drain ...

'' Page, 1987 (Bedrock shiner) * ''

Notropis sabinae The Sabine shiner (''Notropis sabinae'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Notropis''. It is endemic to the United States. It is native to: * St. Francis and lower White, and lower Black River drainages in Missouri and Arkansas. * L ...

'' D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1886 (Sabine shiner) *

Notropis saladonis The Salado shiner (''Notropis saladonis'') is an extinct species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It was found only in the Rio Salado, a tributary of the Rio Grande in northern Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the ...

'' C. L. Hubbs & C. Hubbs, 1958 (Salado shiner) * '' Notropis scabriceps'' ( Cope, 1868) (New River shiner) * '' Notropis scepticus'' ( D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1883) (Sandbar shiner) * '' Notropis semperasper'' C. R. Gilbert, 1961 (Roughhead shiner) * ''

Notropis shumardi The silverband shiner (''Notropis shumardi'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus '' Notropis''. It is endemic to the United States, where it is found in the Mississippi River and main tributaries in lower Ohio, Arkansas, Louisiana to Il ...

'' ( Girard, 1856) (Silverband shiner) * '' Notropis simus'' ( Cope, 1875) (Bluntnose shiner) * ''

Notropis spectrunculus The mirror shiner (''Notropis spectrunculus''). is a species small freshwater cyprinid fish of the upper Tennessee River The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately long and is located in the sout ...

'' ( Cope, 1868) (Mirror shiner) * '' Notropis stilbius'' D. S. Jordan, 1877 (Silverstripe shiner) * ''

Notropis stramineus The sand shiner (''Notropis stramineus'') is a widespread North American species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. Sand shiners live in open clear water streams with sandy bottoms where they feed in schools on aquatic and terrestrial i ...

'' ( Cope, 1865) (Sand shiner) * '' Notropis suttkusi''

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Notropis telescopus The telescope shiner (''Notropis telescopus'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Notropis''. ''Notropis telescopus'' is primarily found in a small range of waters located in the Southeastern Region of the United States. There is ve ...

'' ( Cope, 1868) (Telescope shiner) * ''

Notropis texanus The weed shiner (''Notropis texanus'') is a North American species of freshwater fish in the cyprinid genus ''Notropis''. Prior to 1958, this species was named ''Notropis roseus''. Description The weed shiner, ''Notropis texanus,'' is a member ...

'' ( Girard, 1856) (Weed shiner) * '' Notropis topeka'' ( C. H. Gilbert, 1884) (Topeka shiner) * ''

Notropis tropicus The pygmy shiner (''Notropis tropicus'') is a species of cyprinid fish. It is endemic to the Pánuco River basin in east–central Mexico. Its type locality is Tamesí River at Llera in the Tamaulipas state. It is a small species, less than in ...

'' C. L. Hubbs &

, 1975 (Pygmy shiner) * '' Notropis uranoscopus'' Suttkus, 1959 (Skygazer shiner) * ''

Notropis volucellus The mimic shiner (''Notropis volucellus') is a species of North American cyprinid freshwater fish in the genus ''Notropis''. The genus ''Notropis'' is commonly known as the eastern shiners. It is native to areas of the Hudson Bay drainage, Great L ...

'' ( Cope, 1865) (Mimic shiner) * '' Notropis wickliffi'' Trautman, 1931 (Channel shiner) * '' Notropis xaenocephalus'' ( D. S. Jordan, 1877) (Coosa shiner)

References

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