Redfin shiner
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| Species: | L. umbratilis
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| Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)
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The Redfin Shiner (Lythrurus umbratilis) is one of the 324 fish species found in Tennessee.
Habitat and Habits
Redfin shiners are found in sluggish portions of small to medium sized streams and are rather tolerant of turbid (murky) water and some silt. They can also be found in larger rivers but often in low numbers. They are most common in the Maumee, Portage, and Sandusky River systems of Northwest Ohio but can be found throughout the Lake Erie drainage and in the Ohio River drainage in Southeast Ohio. In Southwest Ohio they are replaced by the closely related scarlet shiner.
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