Luxilus is a genus of cyprinid fish found in North America. They are commonly known as highscale shiners. There are currently nine species in the genus.
Highscale shiners | |
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Warpaint shiner (Luxilus coccogenis) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Cyprinidae |
Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
Genus: | Luxilus Rafinesque, 1820 |
Type species | |
Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820
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Species | |
See text | |
Synonyms | |
Species
edit- Luxilus albeolus (D. S. Jordan, 1889) (white shiner)
- Luxilus cardinalis (Mayden, 1988) (cardinal shiner)
- Luxilus cerasinus (Cope, 1868) (crescent shiner)
- Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820 (striped shiner)
- Luxilus coccogenis (Cope, 1868) (warpaint shiner)
- Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817) (common shiner)
- Luxilus pilsbryi (Fowler, 1904) (duskystripe shiner)
- Luxilus zonatus (Putnam, 1863) (bleeding shiner)
- Luxilus zonistius D. S. Jordan, 1880 (bandfin shiner)
References
edit- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Luxilus in FishBase. August 2011 version.