The coastal shiner (Notropis petersoni) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis. It is endemic to the United States where it is found in Atlantic and Gulf slope drainages from the Cape Fear and Waccamaw river drainages, North Carolina, south to southern Florida, and west to Jordan River in Mississippi.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Clade: | Pogonichthyinae |
| Genus: | Notropis |
| Species: | N. petersoni
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| Notropis petersoni Fowler, 1942
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References
edit- ^ NatureServe (2013). "Notropis petersoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T202317A18233183. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202317A18233183.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- Robert Jay Goldstein, Rodney W. Harper, Richard Edwards: American Aquarium Fishes. Texas A&M University Press 2000, ISBN 978-0-89096-880-2, p. 97 (restricted online copy, p. 97, at Google Books)
- Coastal shiner on FishBase