Orangefin shiner

The orangefin shiner (Miniellus ammophilus) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows.^[2] It is widely distributed in the Mobile basin, below the Fall Line in Alabama and Mississippi, with disjunct populations occurring in the Yellow Creek system of the Tennessee River drainage in northern Mississippi, in the headwaters of the Hatchie River system in northern Mississippi and southwestern Tennessee, and the Skuna River system of the Yazoo drainage in northern Mississippi.

Orangefin shiner
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
Subfamily:	Pogonichthyinae
Genus:	Miniellus
Species:	M. ammophilus
Binomial name
Miniellus ammophilus (Suttkus & Boschung, 1990)
Synonyms[2]
Notropis ammophilus Suttkus & Boschung, 1990