Luxilus (original) (raw)
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Genus of fishes
| Highscale shiners | |
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| Warpaint shiner (Luxilus coccogenis) | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Genus: | LuxilusRafinesque, 1820 |
| Type species | |
| _Luxilus chrysocephalus_Rafinesque, 1820 | |
| Species | |
| See text | |
| Synonyms | |
| Plargyrus Rafinesque, 1820 Hypsolepis Agassiz, 1854 Coccotis Jordan, 1882 Coccogenia Cockerell & Callaway 1909 |
Luxilus is a genus of cyprinid fish found in North America. They are commonly known as highscale shiners. There are currently nine species in the genus.
- Luxilus albeolus (D. S. Jordan, 1889) (white shiner)
- Luxilus cardinalis (Mayden, 1988) (cardinal shiner)
- Luxilus cerasinus (Cope, 1868) (crescent shiner)
- Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820 (striped shiner)
- Luxilus coccogenis (Cope, 1868) (warpaint shiner)
- Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817) (common shiner)
- Luxilus pilsbryi (Fowler, 1904) (duskystripe shiner)
- Luxilus zonatus (Putnam, 1863) (bleeding shiner)
- Luxilus zonistius D. S. Jordan, 1880 (bandfin shiner)
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Luxilus". FishBase. August 2011 version.