Pygmy shiner

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| taxon = Notropis tropicus

| authority = C. L. Hubbs & R. R. Miller, 1975

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The pygmy shiner (Notropis tropicus) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish beloinging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows.{{Cof genus|genus=Notropis|access-date=17 March 2025}}{{FishBase |genus=Notropis |species=tropicus |month=October |year=2015}} It is endemic to the Pánuco River basin in east–central Mexico.{{cite journal|author=Soto-Galera, E.|author2=Alcántara-Soria, L.|author3=Paulo-Maya, J. |year=2011|title= Estado actual de la ictiofauna dulceacuícola de la provincia del complejo Tamesí-Pánuco. |journal=Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas. Informe final SNIB-CONABIO proyecto No. FM027. México, D.F. |url=http://www.conabio.gob.mx/institucion/proyectos/resultados/InfFM027.pdf}} Its type locality is Tamesí River at Llera in the state of Tamaulipas. It is a small species, less than {{convert|4|cm|abbr=on}} in standard length.{{cite journal|last1=Hubbs|first1=Carl L.|last2=Miller|first2=Robert Rush |year=1975 |title=Notropis tropicus, a new cyprinid fish from eastern Mexico |journal=Southwestern Naturalist |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=121–131 |doi=10.2307/3670018|jstor=3670018 |bibcode=1975SWNat..20..121H }}