Coosa shiner (Notropis xaenocephalus)
Image source: Joshua Paul Hughes
General data
- Main name: Coosa shiner
- Climates: Subtropical
- Habitat: Freshwater
- Native: North America
- Distribution: Mobile River
Classification
- Genus: Notropis - Eastern shiners
- Family: Leuciscidae - Chub family
- Order: Cypriniformes - Carps
- Class: Actinopteri - Ray-finned fishes
- Superclass: Osteichthyes - Bony fishes
Coosa shiner (Alburnops xaenocephalus) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. It is endemic to the United States where it inhabits the Coosa and Tallapoosa river systems in the Mobile Bay drainage above the Fall Line in southeastern Tennessee, northwestern Georgia, and eastern Alabama.
