The channel shiner (Paranotropis wickliffi) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish beloinging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. It is endemic to the United States where it is widespread in the Mississippi River basin, including the Missouri, Ohio, Arkansas, and Tennessee rivers and the lower portions of their tributaries.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Channel Shiner being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Paranotropis volucellus
- Miniellus stramineus
- Miniellus missuriensis
- Alburnops blennius
- Miniellus greenei
- Notropis amabilis
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Leuciscidae
- Genus
- Paranotropis
- Species
- Paranotropis wickliffi
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