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

subfamily

Western Minnows

Laviniinae

Includes
18 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Western Chubs 5 native
  • Redbelly Daces and Allies 4 native
  • Pikeminnows 3 native
  • California Roaches 2 native
  • Tui Chubs 1 native
  • Orthodon 1 native
  • Hardheads 1 native
  • Hitches 1 native
  • Gila × Ptychocheilus
  • Desert Daces
  • Relict Daces
  • Alvord Chubs

Range

United States

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

Most observed native western minnows All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Northern Redbelly Dace Chrosomus eos 1,749 observations
  • Northern Pikeminnow Ptychocheilus oregonensis 1,470 observations
  • Southern Redbelly Dace Chrosomus erythrogaster 1,428 observations
  • Sacramento Pikeminnow Ptychocheilus grandis 1,357 observations
  • Coastal Roach Hesperoleucus venustus 690 observations
  • Mountain Redbelly Dace Chrosomus oreas 633 observations
  • Finescale Dace Chrosomus neogaeus 492 observations
  • Arroyo Chub Gila orcuttii 247 observations
  • Roundtail Chub Gila robusta 231 observations
  • Hardhead Mylopharodon conocephalus 197 observations
  • California Roach Hesperoleucus symmetricus 176 observations
  • Utah Chub Gila atraria 145 observations
  • Chiselmouth Gila alutacea 72 observations
  • Blue Chub Gila coerulea 61 observations
  • Klamath Tui Chub Siphateles bicolor 56 observations
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