About Cyprinella galactura (Cope, 1868)
The whitetail shiner, with the scientific name Cyprinella galactura (Cope, 1868), is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish that belongs to Leuciscidae, the fish family that includes shiners, daces, and minnows. This fish can be found in several specific North American river systems and drainages: the Tennessee and Cumberland river drainages spanning Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky; Atlantic slope headwaters consisting of the upper Savannah and Santee river systems in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia; the upper New River drainage in West Virginia and Virginia; and the parts of the White and St. Francis river systems located on the Ozark Plateau and in the Ouachita Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas.
