{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Striped Shiners.jpg | image_caption = Striped shiners (''Luxilus chrysocephalus'') | taxon = Luxilus | authority = Rafinesque, 1820<ref name = "Cof family">{{Cof family|family=Pogonichthyinae|access-date=12 March 2025}}</ref> | type_species = ''Luxilus chrysocephalus'' | type_species_authority = Rafinesque, 1820<ref name = "Cof family"/> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | synonyms = *''Plargyrus'' <small>Rafinesque, 1820</small> *''Hypsolepis'' <small>Agassiz, 1854</small> *''Coccogenia'' <small>Cockerell & Callaway 1909</small> |synonyms_ref = <ref name = "Cof family"/> }}
'''''Luxilus''''' is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows.<ref name = "Cof family"/> The species in this genus are found in North America. They are commonly known as '''highscale shiners'''.
== Species == ''Luxilus'' contains the following valid species:<ref name = "Cof genus">{{Cof genus|genus=Luxilus|access-date=13 March 2025}}</ref> * ''Luxilus albeolus'' <small>(D. S. Jordan, 1889)</small> (white shiner) * ''Luxilus cardinalis'' <small>(Mayden, 1988)</small> (cardinal shiner) * ''Luxilus cerasinus'' <small>(Cope, 1868)</small> (crescent shiner) * ''Luxilus chrysocephalus'' <small>Rafinesque, 1820</small> (striped shiner) * ''Luxilus cornutus'' <small>(Mitchill, 1817)</small> (common shiner) * ''Luxilus pilsbryi'' <small>(Fowler, 1904)</small> (duskystripe shiner) * ''Luxilus zonatus'' <small>(Putnam, 1863)</small> (bleeding shiner)
== References == {{Reflist}} * {{FishBase genus | genus = Luxilus | month = August | year = 2011}}
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Category:Luxilus Category:Pogonichthyinae Category:Freshwater fish genera Category:Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
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