Roughhead shiner
Species of fish
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The roughhead shiner (Notropis semperasper) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish beloinging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. It is found only in the upper James River drainage, Virginia, USA.
| Roughhead shiner | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Pogonichthyinae |
| Genus: | Notropis |
| Species: | N. semperasper |
| Binomial name | |
| Notropis semperasper C. R. Gilbert, 1961 | |
In March 2022, the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the roughhead shiner as endangered.[2]