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The tricolor shiner (''Cyprinella trichroistia'') is a species of freshwater
ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...
in the
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Leuciscidae Leuciscidae is a family of freshwater ray-finned fishes, formerly classified as a subfamily of the Cyprinidae, which contains the true minnows. Members of the Old World (OW) clade of minnows within this subfamily are known as European minnow ...
, the shiners, daces and minnows. This fish is endemic to the
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where it occurs in the
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drainage in
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, northwestern
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, and southeastern
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References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20130111034246/http://www.bio.utk.edu/hulseylab/Fishlist.html Cyprinella Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Taxa named by Charles Henry Gilbert Fish described in 1878 {{Leuciscinae-stub