← Back

River Shiner

Notropis blennius

Classification

The river shiner (Alburnops blennius) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. It is found in the United States and Canada, where it inhabits the Hudson Bay basin from Alberta to Manitoba, south through the Red Red River in Minnesota and North Dakota; and the Mississippi River basin from Wisconsin and Minnesota to Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, west to eastern Colorado, and east to West Virginia.

Distribution

(c) Steven Wang, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
Loading map…
Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 132Canada · 8