Summary ²

The Ghost Shiner (Notropis buchanani) is a North American species of freshwater fish belonging to the Notropis genus within the Cyprinidae family. It is generally characterized as being a small bodied, silvery and fusiform shaped cyprinid.Notropis buchanani is morphologically similar to and often mistaken for the Mimic Shiner (Notropis volucellus), which is evident by its former classification as a subspecies of Notropis volucellus.

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1. (c) Raredon, Sandra J., some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=fishes&irn=10320666
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notropis_buchanani

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