Greenfin shiner
| Greenfin shiner | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Pogonichthyinae |
| Genus: | Cyprinella |
| Species: | C. chloristia
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| Binomial name | |
| Cyprinella chloristia (D. S. Jordan and Brayton, 1878)
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The greenfin shiner (Cyprinella chloristia) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows.[2] It is endemic to the United States, where it occurs in the Santee River drainage in North Carolina and South Carolina, and the Peedee River drainage in South Carolina.This species reaches a length of 7.5 cm (3.0 in)[3]
References
[edit]- ^ NatureServe (2013). "Cyprinella chloristia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T202078A15363134. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202078A15363134.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Cyprinella". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Cyprinella chloristia". FishBase. February 2014 version.
- Jordan D. S., and A. W. Brayton. 1878. Contributions to North American ichthyology, based primarily on the collections of the United States National Museum. III. A.-On the distribution of the fishes of the Alleghany region of South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, with descriptions of new or little known species. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 12:1-95.
- Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 2011. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 663p.
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