Biology:Plagopterinae

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Short description: Subfamily of fishes

Plagopterinae
Nashua River Fallfish.jpg
Semotilus corporalis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Leuciscidae
Subfamily: Plagopterinae
Cope, 1874
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Plagopterinae is a subfamily of the freshwater fish family Leuciscidae, which contains the true minnows. Members of this family are known as creek chubs or the creek chub-plagopterin (CC-P) clade of minnows. All members of this family are found in North America, and it includes among the northernmost-distributed of all North American minnows, the lake chub.[1][2]

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Wikidata ☰ Q100144509 entry