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Species Information

Kingdom: Animalia
  Phylum: Craniata
    Class: Actinopterygii
      Order: Cypriniformes
        Family: Leuciscidae
          Genus: Notropis
            Species: girardi

Arkansas River Shiner - Notropis girardi

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Species Extent (New Mexico)

General Description

Arkansas River Shiner (Notropis girardi) is a small (5 cm) minnow that has been extirpated from much of its range and currently only remains in an 818 km segment of the Canadian River in Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico, and may persist in the Cimarron River in Oklahoma and Kansas. It was also introduced in the Pecos River in New Mexico (this population is not included on the list of SGCN). They prefer shallow, cloudy channels of major streams and tend to congregate downstream of sand ridges. Spawning is associated with flooding from heavy summer rains.

Status

Global Rank: G2

State Rank: S1

State Status: E

Federal Status: Listed Threatened [LT]

USFS Status:

BLM Status:

SWAP Status: SGCN

NMRP Strategy Status:

Observations in Natural Heritage New Mexico Database

Number of Subpopulations: 32

Number of Mapped Locations: 147

Number of Observations: 656

Observation date range: 08-22-1939 to 11-02-2022

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