Chrosomus
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| Chrosomus | |
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| File:Southern Red-Bellied Dace.JPG | |
| Chrosomus erythrogaster | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Laviniinae |
| Genus: | Chrosomus Rafinesque, 1820[1] |
| Type species | |
| Luxilus erythrogaster Rafinesque, 1820[1]
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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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
[edit | edit source]Chrosomuscontains the following species;[3]
| Image | Species | Common name |
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| File:Phoxinus cumberlandensis.jpg | Chrosomus cumberlandensis
(W. C. Starnes & L. B. Starnes, 1978) |
Blackside dace |
| File:Chrosomus eos 32106509 (cropped).jpg | Chrosomus eos
Cope, 1861 |
Northern redbelly dace |
| File:Southern Red-Bellied Dace.JPG | Chrosomus erythrogaster
Rafinesque, 1820 |
Southern redbelly dace |
| File:Chrosomus neogaeus 206608892 (cropped) (cropped).jpg | Chrosomus neogaeus
(Cope, 1867) |
Finescale dace |
| File:Chrosomus oreas 1 (cropped).jpg | Chrosomus oreas
Cope, 1868 |
Mountain redbelly dace |
| File:Laurel dace 02-07-01a.jpg | Chrosomus saylori
(Skelton, 2001) |
Laurel dace |
| Chrosomus tennesseensis
(W. C. Starnes & R. E. Jenkins, 1988) |
Tennessee dace |
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References
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