Notropis megalops (Girard, 1856)
West Texas shiner
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered (Conway & Kim, 2016)
Distribution
Texas, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Girard, C. F. (1856). Researches upon the cyprinoid fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of the United States, west of the Mississippi Valley, from speci-mens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 8: 165-213.
Other references:
Conway, Kevin W. and Kim, Daemin. (2016). Redescription of the Texas Shiner Notropis amabilis from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico with the reinstatement of N. megalops (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters 26(4): 305-340, 17 figs., 4 tabs.
http://kut.org/post/tale-two-minnows-discovery-and-rediscovery-west-texas-shiner