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Cyprinidae
Blacktail Shiner
Cyprinella venusta
Nineteen Centimeters Carp of North American Waters
- Black
- Tropical
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- North America
- West Asia
- Fusiform
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Black
Tropical
Regional distribution
Fusiform
MediumThe blacktail shiner (Cyprinella venusta) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. This fish is found in the United States.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Cyprinella
- Maximum length
- 19 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- North America: Gulf drainages from Suwannee River in Georgia and Florida to Rio Grande in Texas, USA; Mississippi River basin (mostly on Former Mississippi Embayment) from southern Illinois and Missouri to Louisiana and west in Red River drainage to western Oklahoma, USA. Introduced into Sac River (Missouri River drainage) in Missouri.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
