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Common Name: common shiner
Taxonomy: available through 
Identification: Gilbert (1964); Scott and Crossman 1973; Becker (1983); Page and Burr (1991); Jenkins and Burkhead (1994); Pflieger (1997); another commonly used name is Notropis cornutus.
Size: 18 cm.
Native Range: Atlantic, Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, and Mississippi River basins, from
Nova Scotia to southeastern Saskatchewan, and south to James River
drainage, Virginia, northern Ohio, central Missouri, and Wyoming (Page
and Burr 1991).
Nonindigenous Occurrences: This species has been collected in Acadia National Park, Maine (Tilmant 1999). The common shiner was introduced into Willard Bay Reservoir, Utah, in 1982 (Sigler and Sigler 1987). This shiner is regarded as native but may have been introduced in West Virginia into the main channel of the Ohio River, the Big Sandy, the Guyandotte, and the Kanawha below the falls (Stauffer et al. 1995).
Means of Introduction: Probable stocking for forage in Utah. Unknown in West Virginia; probable bait bucket release.
Status: Extirpated in Utah (Sigler and Sigler 1996). Established in West Virginia.
Impact of Introduction: Unknown.
Remarks: This species is known to hybridize with several other native minnows (Trautman 1981). Scott and Crossman (1973) noted that the common shiner is a very commonly used bait fish.
Tilmant, J.T. 1999. Management of nonindigenous aquatic fish in the U.S. National Park System. National Park Service. 50 pp.
Other Resources:
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Pam Fuller
Revision Date: 8/5/2004 Citation for this information:
Pam Fuller. 2009. Luxilus cornutus. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=563> Revision Date: 8/5/2004
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