Luxilus

Luxilus is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows.^[1] The species in this genus are found in North America. They are commonly known as highscale shiners.

Luxilus
Striped shiners (Luxilus chrysocephalus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
Subfamily:	Pogonichthyinae
Genus:	Luxilus Rafinesque, 1820[1]
Type species
Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820[1]
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Plargyrus Rafinesque, 1820 Hypsolepis Agassiz, 1854 Coccogenia Cockerell & Callaway 1909

Species

Luxilus contains the following valid species:^[2]

• Luxilus albeolus (D. S. Jordan, 1889) (white shiner)
• Luxilus cardinalis (Mayden, 1988) (cardinal shiner)
• Luxilus cerasinus (Cope, 1868) (crescent shiner)
• Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820 (striped shiner)
• Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817) (common shiner)
• Luxilus pilsbryi (Fowler, 1904) (duskystripe shiner)
• Luxilus zonatus (Putnam, 1863) (bleeding shiner)