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Ouachita shiner

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ3236384 ↗
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The Ouachita shiner or Ouachita Mountain shiner (Lythrurus snelsoni) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. It is found only in the upper Little River system in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma in the United States.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ouachita shiner” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.