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Highscale Shiners
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Highscale Shiners

Luxilus

Luxilus is a genus of cyprinid fish found in North America. They are commonly known as highscale shiners. There are currently nine species in the genus.

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11 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 7 known species

Common Shiner

speciesLuxilus cornutus

Striped Shiner

speciesLuxilus chrysocephalus

Bleeding Shiner

speciesLuxilus zonatus

White Shiner

speciesLuxilus albeolus

Cardinal Shiner

speciesLuxilus cardinalis

Crescent Shiner

speciesLuxilus cerasinus

Duskystripe Shiner

speciesLuxilus pilsbryi

Striped × Common Shiner

hybridLuxilus chrysocephalus × cornutus

Striped × Duskystripe Shiner

hybridLuxilus chrysocephalus × pilsbryi

Common × Bleeding Shiner

hybridLuxilus cornutus × zonatus

Striped × Bleeding Shiner

hybridLuxilus chrysocephalus × zonatus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 58621.