''Luxilus'' is a genus of freshwater
ray-finned fishes
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belonging to the
family
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Leuciscidae
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Members of the Old World (OW) clade of minnows within this subfamily are known as European minnow ...
, the shiners, daces and minnows.
The species in this genus are found in
North America
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. They are commonly known as highscale shiners.
Species
''Luxilus'' contains the following valid species:
* ''
Luxilus albeolus''
( D. S. Jordan, 1889) (white shiner)
* ''
Luxilus cardinalis''
( Mayden, 1988) (cardinal shiner)
* ''
Luxilus cerasinus''
(Cope
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, 1868) (crescent shiner)
* ''
Luxilus chrysocephalus''
Rafinesque
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, 1820 (striped shiner)
* ''
Luxilus cornutus''
( Mitchill, 1817) (common shiner)
* ''
Luxilus pilsbryi''
( Fowler, 1904) (duskystripe shiner)
* ''
Luxilus zonatus''
( Putnam, 1863) (bleeding shiner)
References
*
Pogonichthyinae
Freshwater fish genera
Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
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