Chrosomus

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Chrosomus
Southern Red-Bellied Dace.JPG
Chrosomus erythrogaster
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Leuciscidae
Subfamily: Laviniinae
Genus: Chrosomus
Rafinesque, 1820 [1]
Type species
Luxilus erythrogaster
Rafinesque, 1820 [1]
Synonyms [1]

Chrosomus is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, chubs and related fishes. The fishes in this genus are found in the eastern half of the United States and Canada. These fishes have sometimes been included in Eurasian minnow genus Phoxinus . They are the only members of the predominantly western subfamily Laviniinae that are found in eastern North America. [2]

Species

Chrosomuscontains the following species; [3]

ImageSpeciesCommon name
Phoxinus cumberlandensis.jpg Chrosomus cumberlandensis

(W. C. Starnes & L. B. Starnes, 1978)

Blackside dace
Chrosomus eos 32106509 (cropped).jpg Chrosomus eos

Cope, 1861

Northern redbelly dace
Southern Red-Bellied Dace.JPG Chrosomus erythrogaster

Rafinesque, 1820

Southern redbelly dace
Chrosomus neogaeus 206608892 (cropped) (cropped).jpg Chrosomus neogaeus

(Cope, 1867)

Finescale dace
Chrosomus oreas 1 (cropped).jpg Chrosomus oreas

Cope, 1868

Mountain redbelly dace
Laurel dace 02-07-01a.jpg Chrosomus saylori

(Skelton, 2001)

Laurel dace
Chrosomus tennesseensis

(W. C. Starnes & R. E. Jenkins, 1988)

Tennessee dace

References

  1. 1 2 3 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Chrosomus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  2. ↑ Schönhuth, Susana; Vukić, Jasna; Šanda, Radek; Yang, Lei; Mayden, Richard L. (2018-10-01). "Phylogenetic relationships and classification of the Holarctic family Leuciscidae (Cypriniformes: Cyprinoidei)" . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 127: 781–799. Bibcode:2018MolPE.127..781S. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.026. ISSN   1055-7903. PMID   29913311. S2CID   49292104.
  3. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Chrosomus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 14 May 2025.
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