Whitetail shiner
(Cyprinella galactura)
Image source: Eric C. Maxwell | inaturalist.org
General data
Scientific names:
Whitetail shiner
Habitat:
Freshwater
Climate:
Temperate
Native:
North America
The whitetail shiner (Cyprinella galactura) is a freshwater fish from North America. It inhabits the Tennessee and Cumberland river drainages of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky, Atlantic slope headwaters (upper Savannah and Santee river systems, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia), the upper New River drainage in West Virginia and Virginia, and the Ozark Plateau and Ouachita Mountains portions of the White and St. Francis river systems in Missouri and Arkansas.
