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GBIF·2366993speciesAnimalia22,766 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderCypriniformes
  4. ›familyCyprinidae
  5. ›genusLuxilus
Luxilus chrysocephalus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Striped Shiner

Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820

Also calledjeleček zlatohlavý (ces) · méné rayé (fra)

First described in: Rafinesque, C.S. (1820). Ichthyologia Ohiensis [Part 5]. <em>Western Rev. Misc. Mag.</em> 2(4): 235-242.

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”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2366993.