Whitetail shiner


The whitetail shiner is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. It inhabits the Tennessee and Cumberland river drainages of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky, Atlantic slope headwaters, the upper New [River (Kanawha River)|New River] drainage in West Virginia and Virginia, and the Ozark Plateau and Ouachita Mountains portions of the White and St. [Francis River|St. Francis] river systems in Missouri and Arkansas.