Highscale shiner

The highscale shiner (Alburnops hypsilepis) 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 is found in sandy-bottomed tributary streams of the Chattahoochee and Flint river systems in Georgia and eastern Alabama.^[3] They were also historically found in the uppermost reaches of the Savannah river drainage.^[4]

Highscale shiner
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
Subfamily:	Pogonichthyinae
Genus:	Alburnops
Species:	A. hypsilepis
Binomial name
Alburnops hypsilepis (Suttkus & Raney, 1955)
Synonyms[2]
Notropis hypsilepis Suttkus & Raney, 1955