Salado shiner
Extinct species of fish
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The Salado shiner (Notropis saladonis) is an extinct species of ray-finned fish beloinging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. It was found only in the Rio Salado, a tributary of the Rio Grande in northern Mexico. It was locally known as sardinita de salado.
| Salado shiner | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Pogonichthyinae |
| Genus: | Notropis |
| Species: | †N. saladonis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Notropis saladonis C. L. Hubbs & C. Hubbs, 1958 | |
