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Cyprinella gibbsi

Tallapoosa Shiner
NS G4
Collection Details

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Records

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes) Cypriniformes (Carps and Minnows) Cyprinidae (Carps and Minnows) Cyprinella Cyprinella gibbsi (Tallapoosa Shiner)

Description

This species account was compiled from FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version 04/2025.) and processed using AI-assisted text extraction. It may contain errors in spelling, punctuation, or formatting. When citing, please reference the original source rather than this page. Learn more about our species accounts.

Characters

Body shape: elongated.

Distribution

North America: Tallapoosa River system (Alabama River drainage) in Alabama and Georgia, USA; a single record in Chattahoochee River in Alabama.

Habitat Associations

Freshwater. benthopelagic. Found in: streams.

Biology

Found in sandy and rocky runs of small to medium rivers, less often in flowing pools (Ref. 86798).
Max length: 9.5 cm TL.
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2011-11-16. Resilience: High (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

References

Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr (2011) A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 663p.

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