Sandbar shiner
Species of fish
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The sandbar shiner (Notropis scepticus) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish beloinging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows.
| Sandbar shiner | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Pogonichthyinae |
| Genus: | Notropis |
| Species: | N. scepticus |
| Binomial name | |
| Notropis scepticus (D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1883) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Minnilus scepticus Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 | |
It is endemic to the Southeastern United States.
It is native from the Cape Fear River drainage in North Carolina, to the Savannah River drainage in Georgia.