Common names: Red shiner
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
Abundance: abundant (always seen in some numbers) | Ref: Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 2011
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Uses: bait: yes;
Comments: Found in the Mississippi River basin from soutwestern Wisconsin and eastern Indiana to Wyoming and south to Louisiana; Gulf drainages west of Mississippi River to Rio Grande in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. Absent in Ozark and Ouachita uplands. Widely introduced elsewhere in USA (Ref. 5723, 86798). Type locality: Otter Creek, tributary of the North Fork of the Red River, Kiowa or Tillman County, Oklahoma (Ref. 79012). Also Ref. 10294. Status of threat of Cyprinella lutrensis blairi: extinct. Criteria: 1,5 (http://fisc.er.usgs.gov/afs/) (Ref. 81264).
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.nmfs.gov
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 2011
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