Luxilus

Highscale shiners
Warpaint shiner (Luxilus coccogenis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Leuciscinae
Genus:	Luxilus Rafinesque, 1820
Type species
Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820
Species
See text
Synonyms
Plargyrus Rafinesque, 1820 Hypsolepis Agassiz, 1854 Coccotis Jordan, 1882 Coccogenia Cockerell & Callaway 1909

Luxilus is a genus of cyprinid fish found in North America. They are commonly known as highscale shiners. There are currently nine species in the genus.

Species

• Luxilus albeolus (D. S. Jordan, 1889) (white shiner)
• Luxilus cardinalis (Mayden, 1988) (cardinal shiner)
• Luxilus cerasinus (Cope, 1868) (crescent shiner)
• Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820 (striped shiner)
• Luxilus coccogenis (Cope, 1868) (warpaint shiner)
• Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817) (common shiner)
• Luxilus pilsbryi (Fowler, 1904) (duskystripe shiner)
• Luxilus zonatus (Putnam, 1863) (bleeding shiner)
• Luxilus zonistius D. S. Jordan, 1880 (bandfin shiner)

References

• Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Luxilus in FishBase. August 2011 version.