{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=NatureServe |date=2013 |title=''Lythrurus bellus'' |article-number=e.T184101A18234528 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T184101A18234528.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}</ref> | image = | taxon = Lythrurus bellus | authority = (O.P. Hay, 1881) | synonyms = {{Specieslist | Minnilus bellus | O. P. Hay, 1881 | Notropis bellus | (O. P. Hay, 1881) | Notropis alabamae | D. S. Jordan & Meek, 1884 }} | synonyms_ref = <ref name = "Cof genus">{{Cof genus|genus=Lythrurus|access-date=16 March 2025}}</ref> }}
The '''pretty shiner''' ('''''Lythrurus bellus''''') is a freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows.<ref name = "Cof genus"/> It occurs in the Mobile Bay drainage, and the Tennessee River drainage of the Bear and Yellow Creek systems in Alabama and Mississippi. Its preferred habitat is sandy and clay bottomed pools and runs of headwaters, creeks and small rivers.<ref name = FB>{{cite web | url = http://www.fishbase.se/summary/Lythrurus-bellus.html | title = Pretty shiner ''Lythrurus bellus'' Hay, 1881 | access-date = 19 November 2017 | publisher = Fishbase | editor1 = Rainer Froese | editor2 = Daniel Pauly | year = 2017}}</ref>
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Category:Lythrurus Category:Freshwater fish of the United States Category:Fish described in 1881