Blacktail Shiner
Cyprinella venusta Girard, 1856
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Cyprinella venusta Girard, 1856
- Name authority
- Girard, 1856
- Common name
- Blacktail Shiner
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Cyprinella
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: no · Freshwater: yes · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- gigaclassActinopterygii
- superclassActinopteri
- classTeleostei
- orderCypriniformes
- familyCyprinidae Rafinesque, 1815
- subfamilyLeuciscinae Bonaparte, 1835
- genusCyprinella Girard, 1856
- speciesCyprinella venusta Girard, 1856
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Cyprinella. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Tepehuan ShinerCyprinella alvarezdelvillari Contreras-Balderas & Lozano-Vilano, 1994 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cyprinella chloristia (Jordan & Brayton, 1878) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cyprinella galactura (Cope, 1868) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gibbous ShinerCyprinella garmani (Jordan, 1885) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cyprinella labrosa (Cope, 1870) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cyprinella leedsi (Fowler, 1942) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cyprinella lutrensis (Baird & Girard, 1853) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Conchos ShinerCyprinella panarcys (Hubbs & Miller, 1978) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cyprinella pyrrhomelas (Cope, 1870) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mexican Red ShinerCyprinella rutila (Girard, 1856) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cyprinella trichroistia (Jordan & Gilbert, 1878) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Cyprinella notata Girard, 1856 Girard, 1856 | synonym |
| Luxilus chickasavensis Hay, 1881 Hay, 1881 | synonym |
| Notropis cooglei Hildebrand & Towers, 1928 Hildebrand & Towers, 1928 | synonym |
| Cliola urostigma Jordan & Meek, 1884 Jordan & Meek, 1884 | synonym |
| Cyprinella cercostigma Cope, 1868 Cope, 1868 | synonym |
| Notropis venustus (Girard, 1856) (Girard, 1856) | synonym |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- Girard, C. F. (1856). Researches upon the cyprinoid fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of the United States, west of the Mississippi Valley, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, v. 8: 165–213.pp. 1–49,. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:33HJK. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.