Coosa shiner

Coosa shiner (Alburnops xaenocephalus) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows.^[2] It is endemic to the United States where it inhabits the Coosa and Tallapoosa river systems in the Mobile Bay drainage above the Fall Line in southeastern Tennessee, northwestern Georgia, and eastern Alabama.

Coosa shiner
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
Subfamily:	Pogonichthyinae
Genus:	Alburnops
Species:	A. xaenocephalus
Binomial name
Alburnops xaenocephalus (Jordan, 1877)
Synonyms[2]
Hybopsis xaenocephalus Jordan, 1877 Notropis xaenocephalus (Jordan 1877)