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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Ray-finned Fishes
  5. Carps, Characins, Catfishes and Allies

superorder

Carps, Characins, Catfishes and Allies

Ostariophysi

Includes
223 native 18 introduced 33 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Minnows, Suckers, Carps, and Loaches 195 native
  • Catfishes 27 native
  • Piranhas, Tetras, and Allies 1 native
  • South American Knifefishes
  • Milkfishes

Range

United States

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

Most observed native carps, characins, catfishes and allies All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Creek Chub Semotilus atromaculatus 15,476 observations
  • Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus 12,328 observations
  • White Sucker Catostomus commersonii 7,440 observations
  • Brown Bullhead Ameiurus nebulosus 5,836 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
  • Yellow Bullhead Ameiurus natalis 4,539 observations
  • Western Blacknose Dace Rhinichthys obtusus 4,398 observations
  • Striped Shiner Luxilus chrysocephalus 4,359 observations
  • Black Bullhead Ameiurus melas 4,194 observations
  • Northern Hog Sucker Hypentelium nigricans 3,658 observations
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