Sand shiner
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The sand shiner (Notropis stramineus) is a widespread North American species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae.[2] Sand shiners live in open clear water streams with sandy bottoms where they feed in schools on aquatic and terrestrial insects, bottom ooze and diatoms.[3]
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Sand shiner | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Cyprinidae |
Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
Clade: | Pogonichthyinae |
Genus: | Notropis |
Species: | N. stramineus |
Binomial name | |
Notropis stramineus (Cope, 1865) | |
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