Phoxinus
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Phoxinus Rafinesque, 1820, is a genus of freshwater fish in the carp family (family Cyprinidae) of order Cypriniformes. The type species is Phoxinus phoxinus, the Eurasian minnow.
One species, the blackside dace (P. cumberlandensis), indigenous to the upper Cumberland River basin in Kentucky and Tennessee, is considered Vulnerable.
Members of genus Phoxinus are sometimes called redbelly daces.
Note: FishBase gives author as Agassiz, 1835.
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Species
- P. brachyurus - Seven River's minnow
- P. cumberlandensis - blackside dace
- P. czekanowskii - Czekanowski's minnow
- P. eos - northern redbelly dace
- P. erythrogaster - southern redbelly dace
- P. issykkulensis - Issyk-kul' minnow
- P. keumkang
- P. lagowskii - Amur minnow
- P. neogaeus - finescale dace
- P. oreas - mountain redbelly dace
- P. oxycephalus - Chinese minnow
- P. perenurus - lake minnow
- P. phoxinus - Eurasian minnow
- P. tennesseensis - Tennessee dace
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