Highscale shiner
Species of fish
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The highscale shiner (Alburnops hypsilepis) 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 is found in sandy-bottomed tributary streams of the Chattahoochee and Flint river systems in Georgia and eastern Alabama.[3] They were also historically found in the uppermost reaches of the Savannah river drainage.[4]
| Highscale shiner | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Pogonichthyinae |
| Genus: | Alburnops |
| Species: | A. hypsilepis |
| Binomial name | |
| Alburnops hypsilepis (Suttkus & Raney, 1955) | |
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