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

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Minnows, Suckers, Carps, and Loaches

Cypriniformes

Includes
195 native 10 introduced 13 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Carps and Minnows 157 native
  • Suckers 38 native
  • Algae Eaters
  • Loaches

Range

United States

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

Most observed native minnows, suckers, carps, and loaches All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Creek Chub Semotilus atromaculatus 15,476 observations
  • White Sucker Catostomus commersonii 7,440 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
  • Northern Hog Sucker Hypentelium nigricans 3,658 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
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