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Cyprinella whipplei Girard, 1856

Steelcolor shiner
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Common names: Steelcolor shiner
Occurrence: endemic
Salinity: freshwater
Abundance: common (usually seen) | Ref: Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 2011
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from Mississippi River basin from Ohio and West Virginia to Missouri and eastern Oklahoma, and south to northern Alabama and northern Louisiana; Black Warrior River system (Mobile Bay drainage) in Alabama (Ref. 86798). Mostly absent on Coastal Plain (Ref. 86798). Recorded above the Fall Line in the Mississippi River drainage from Illinois River system, Illinois, southward, and also occurs in the Black Warrior portion of the Mobile drainage (Ref. 10294). Also Ref. 5723.
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 2011
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Common names from other countries

惠氏真小鲤, Terashall pisikarbik, 惠氏真小鯉, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Cypriniformes (Carps) > Leuciscidae (Minnows) > Pogonichthyinae
Etymology: Cyprinella: Latin, cyprinus = carp (Ref. 45335);  whipplei: Named after Captain A. W. Whipple, who collected the type specimens (Ref. 10294).
  More on author: Girard.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; benthopelagic.   Subtropical; 41°N - 33°N

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences |
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