Pogonichthyinae is a subfamily of the freshwater fish family

Leuciscidae Leuciscinae is a subfamily of the freshwater fish family Cyprinidae, which contains the true minnows. Members of the Old World (OW) clade of minnows within this subfamily are known as European minnows. As the name suggests, most members of the O ...

, which contains the true

minnow Minnow is the common name for a number of species of small freshwater fish, belonging to several genera of the families Cyprinidae and Leuciscidae. They are also known in Ireland as pinkeens. Smaller fish in the subfamily Leusciscidae are c ...

s. Members of this family are known as American minnows or the North American (NA) clade of minnows. As the name suggests, all members of this family are found in North America (although they are not the only minnows native to North America, as Plagopterinae, Laviniinae, and

Leuciscinae Leuciscinae is a subfamily of the freshwater fish family Cyprinidae, which contains the true minnows. Members of the Old World (OW) clade of minnows within this subfamily are known as European minnows. As the name suggests, most members of the O ...

are also found there).

Genera

* ''

Agosia The longfin dace (''Agosia chrysogaster'') is a leuciscid fish that is found in western North America in the United States and Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereig ...

'' (longfin dace) * ''

Algansea ''Algansea'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae, distributed in the Lerma– Chapala– Grande de Santiago, Pátzcuaro, Armería, Ameca, Ayutla and Tuxpan basins in west-central Mexico (mostly Jalisco, but also surroundi ...

'' (Mexican chubs) * '' Aztecula'' (Aztec chub) * '' Campostoma'' (stonerollers) * ''

Clinostomus ''Clinostomus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that occur in eastern North America. There are two species in this genus. Species * '' Clinostomus elongatus'' ( Kirtland, 1840) (Redside dace) * ''Clinostomus funduloides The rosyside dace (''Clino ...

'' (redside daces) * ''

Codoma The ornate shiner (''Codoma ornata'') is a cyprinid fish endemic to Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. ...

'' (ornate shiner) * ''

Cyprinella ''Cyprinella'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. They are known as the satinfin shiners. They are native to North America, and some are among the most common freshwater fish species on the eastern side of the con ...

'' (satinfin shiners) * ''

Dionda ''Dionda'' is the genus of desert minnows, small fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae. They are native to fresh waters in the United States and Mexico. Their range is centered in the Rio Grande basin, but they also occur in associated systems ...

'' (desert minnows) * '' Ericymba'' (longjaw minnows) * ''

Erimystax ''Erimystax'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. Members are commonly known as slender chubs, though "slender chub" is also used for individual species local to some area, particularly ''Erimystax cahni''. Species * ''Er ...

'' (slender chubs) * '' Exoglossum'' (cutlips minnows) * ''

Hybognathus ''Hybognathus'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. Its members are collectively known as the silvery minnows. Hybognathus are pelagophils that are native to North America. The populations of such pelagophils, including speci ...

'' (silvery minnows) * ''

Hybopsis ''Hybopsis'' is a genus of cyprinid fish Endemism, endemic to the United States. There are currently six described species in this genus. Species * ''Hybopsis amblops'' (Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Rafinesque, 1820) (Bigeye chub) * ''Hybopsis ...

'' (bigeye chubs) * '' Iotichthys'' (least chub) * ''

Luxilus ''Luxilus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in North America. They are commonly known as highscale shiners. There are currently nine species in the genus. Species * '' Luxilus albeolus'' ( D. S. Jordan, 1889) (white shiner) * '' Luxilus car ...

'' (highscale shiners) * ''

Lythrurus ''Lythrurus'', the finescale shiners, is a genus of cyprinid fish found in North America. There are currently 11 species in this genus. Species * '' Lythrurus alegnotus'' ( Snelson, 1972) (warrior shiner) * '' Lythrurus ardens'' (Cope, 1868) ...

'' (finescale shiners) * ''

Macrhybopsis ''Macrhybopsis'', the blacktail chubs, is a genus of cyprinid fish that are found in North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the no ...

'' (blacktail chubs) * ''

Mylocheilus ''Mylocheilus caurinus'', the peamouth, peamouth chub, redmouth sucker or northwestern dace, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish from the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows, that is found in western North America. It is the only spec ...

'' (peamouth) * ''

Nocomis ''Nocomis'' is a genus of cyprinid fish native to North America. There are currently seven described species in this genus. Species * '' Nocomis asper'' Lachner & R. E. Jenkins, 1971 (Redspot chub) * '' Nocomis biguttatus'' ( Kirtland, 1840) ...

'' (hornyhead chubs) * ''

Notropis ''Notropis'' is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. They are known commonly as eastern shiners.''N ...

'' (eastern shiners) * '' Opsopoeodus'' (pugnose minnow) * ''

Oregonichthys ''Oregonichthys'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. Collectively known as Oregon chubs, that term can also refer to ''O. crameri'' in particular. Species * ''Oregonichthys crameri'' ( Snyder, 1908) (Oregon chub) * ''Oreg ...

'' (Oregon chubs) * ''

Pararhinichthys The cheat minnow (''Pararhinichthys bowersi'') is a demersal, freshwater fish endemic to the United States, most commonly found in the Ohio River basin. It is the only species in the genus Pararhinichthys. Its taxonomic status is debatable and ...

'' (cheat minnow) * ''

Phenacobius ''Phenacobius'', the suckermouth minnows, is a genus of cyprinid fishes endemic to the United States. Historically the suckermouth minnow was not found as far eastward as Ohio, now they seem to be a stable species living throughout the Midwest an ...

'' (suckermouth minnows) * ''

Pimephales ''Pimephales'', commonly known as the bluntnose minnows (a term used locally to refer to '' Pimephales notatus'' specifically), is a genus of cyprinid fish found in North America. All of the four species are small fish, with ''P. notatus'' being ...

'' (bluntnose minnows) * '' Platygobio'' (flathead chub) * ''

Pogonichthys The splittails are a genus ''Pogonichthys'' of cyprinid fish, consisting of two species native to western North America. The common name is inspired by the distinctive appearance of the tail fin, in which the upper lobe is distinctly larger. Of ...

'' (splittails) * ''

Pteronotropis ''Pteronotropis'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemism, endemic to the United States. Characteristics The genus is characterized by a broad dark blue stripe along the side. The genus has large anal and dorsal fins, as well as a compressed body ...

'' (flagfin shiners) * ''

Rhinichthys ''Rhinichthys'', known as the riffle daces, is a genus of freshwater fish in the carp family (Cyprinidae) of the order Cypriniformes. The type species is ''Rhinichthys atratulus'', the blacknose dace. ''Rhinichthys'' species range throughout Nort ...

'' (riffle daces, loach minnows) (including ''Tiaroga'') * '' Richardsonius'' (redside shiners) * †'' Stypodon'' * ''

Tampichthys ''Tampichthys'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemic to east–central Mexico. They are entirely restricted to the Pánuco River basin, except ''T. ipni'' which also occurs in some other Mexican rivers that drain into the Gulf of Mexico. These ar ...

'' * ''

Yuriria Yuriria, Guanajuato, Mexico,(), is one of 46 municipalities in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. Geography Yuriria is located in the "Bajío", or lowlands, of Guanajuato. It is bordered to the east by Salvatierra and Santiago Maravatío, to th ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q100144513 Fish subfamilies Pogonichthyinae Taxa named by Charles Frédéric Girard