Lythrurus
Genus of fishes
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Lythrurus, the finescale shiners, is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. The fishes in this genus are found in North America.
| Finescale shiners | |
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| Rosefin shiner (Lythrurus ardens) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Pogonichthyinae |
| Genus: | Lythrurus D. S. Jordan, 1876[1] |
| Type species | |
| see Taxonomy see Taxonomy | |
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Taxonomy
Lythrurus was first proposed as a genus in 1876 by the American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan with Semotilus diplemia as its type species.[1] S. diplemia had been formally described in 1820 by the French polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. However, S. diplemia is now regarded as a synonym of Chrosomus erythrogaster[2] and in 1884 Jordan proposed Notropis lythrurus as the type species, this taxon is a synonym of Notropis umbratilis. If S. diplemia is the type species then Lythrurus is a synonym of Chrosomus and if this taxon is a valid genus then a new name is needed for this taxon. This genus is classified within the subfamily Pogonichthyinae of the family Leuciscidae.[1]
Species
Lythrurus contains the following valid species:[2]
- Lythrurus alegnotus (Snelson, 1972) (warrior shiner)
- Lythrurus ardens (Cope, 1868) (rosefin shiner)
- Lythrurus atrapiculus (Snelson, 1972) (blacktip shiner)
- Lythrurus bellus (O. P. Hay, 1881) (pretty shiner)
- Lythrurus fasciolaris (C. H. Gilbert, 1891) (scarletfin shiner, scarlet shiner)
- Lythrurus fumeus (Evermann, 1892) (ribbon shiner)
- Lythrurus lirus (D. S. Jordan, 1877) (mountain shiner)
- Lythrurus matutinus (Cope, 1870) (pinewoods shiner)
- Lythrurus roseipinnis (O. P. Hay, 1885) (cherryfin shiner)
- Lythrurus snelsoni (H. W. Robison, 1985) (Ouachita shiner)
- Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856) (redfin shiner)
