Cyprinidae

Coastal Shiner

Notropis petersoni

• Freshwater fish
• Small

The coastal shiner (Alburnops petersoni) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. It is endemic to the United States where it is found in Atlantic and Gulf slope drainages from the Cape Fear and Waccamaw river drainages, North Carolina, south to southern Florida, and west to Jordan River in Mississippi.