Ornate Shiner

Codoma ornata Girard, 1856

Also calledcarpita adornada (spa) · carpita negra (spa)

First described in: Girard, C. F. (1856). Researches upon the cyprinoid fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of the United States, west of the Mississippi Valley, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 8: 165-213.pp. 1-49,.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.