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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Ray-finned Fishes
  5. Minnows, Suckers, Carps, and Loaches
  6. Carps and Minnows
  7. True Minnows

family

True Minnows

Leuciscidae

Includes
157 native 1 introduced 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

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  • North American Minnows 131 native
  • Western Minnows 18 native
  • Plagopterines 7 native
  • Minnows 1 native
  • Mylocheilus × Ptychocheilus
  • Gila × Rhinichthys
  • Eurasian Minnows
  • Clinostomus × Semotilus

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native true minnows All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Creek Chub Semotilus atromaculatus 15,476 observations
  • Golden Shiner Notemigonus crysoleucas 5,584 observations
  • Common Shiner Luxilus cornutus 5,307 observations
  • Bluntnose Minnow Pimephales notatus 5,005 observations
  • Eastern Blacknose Dace Rhinichthys atratulus 4,739 observations
  • Fathead Minnow Pimephales promelas 4,701 observations
  • Central Stoneroller Campostoma anomalum 4,676 observations
  • Western Blacknose Dace Rhinichthys obtusus 4,398 observations
  • Striped Shiner Luxilus chrysocephalus 4,359 observations
  • Longnose Dace Rhinichthys cataractae 3,268 observations
  • Fallfish Semotilus corporalis 3,165 observations
  • Spotfin Shiner Cyprinella spiloptera 2,602 observations
  • Red Shiner Cyprinella lutrensis 2,219 observations
  • River Chub Nocomis micropogon 2,193 observations
  • Rosyside Dace Clinostomus funduloides 2,156 observations
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