The whitemouth shiner (Miniellus alborus) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. It is native to the eastern United States, where it occurs in the Piedmont in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.Froese, R. and D. Pauly. (Eds.) Notropis alborus. FishBase. 2011.
The species was described in 1947 from a creek that joins the Deep River in Randolph County, North Carolina.Hubbs, C. L. and E. C. Raney. (1947). Notropis alborus, a new cyprinid fish from North Carolina and Virginia. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology 498, 1-17.
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