Phoxinus

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Phoxinus
Southern redbelly dace (Phoxinus erythrogaster)
Southern redbelly dace (Phoxinus erythrogaster)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Phoxinus

Rafinesque, 1820

Species
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Phoxinus is a genus of freshwater fish in the carp family (family Cyprinidae) of order Cypriniformes. The type species is Phoxinus phoxinus, the Eurasian minnow.

One species, the blackside dace (P. cumberlandensis), indigenous to the upper Cumberland River basin in Kentucky and Tennessee, is considered Vulnerable.

Members of genus Phoxinus are sometimes called redbelly daces.

Note: FishBase gives author as Agassiz, 1835.

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