Redlip shiner
| Redlip shiner | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Genus: | Notropis |
| Species: | N. chiliticus |
| Binomial name | |
| Notropis chiliticus (Cope, 1870) | |
The redlip shiner (Notropis chiliticus) is a North American species of freshwater cyprinid fish.
It is a small fish, about 5 cm long, and lives only in the Roanoke River and Pee Dee River drainages in Virginia and North Carolina.
References
- Robert Jay Goldstein, Rodney W. Harper, Richard Edwards: American Aquarium Fishes. Texas A&M University Press 2000, ISBN 978-0-89096-880-2, p. 99 (restricted online copy, p. 99, at Google Books)
- Redlip shiner on FishBase
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