Pogonichthyinae

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Pogonichthyinae is a subfamily of the freshwater fish family Leuciscidae, which contains the true minnows. Members of this family are known as American minnows or the North American (NA) clade of minnows. As the name suggests, all members of this family are found in North America (although they are not the only minnows native to North America, as Plagopterinae, Laviniinae, and Leuciscinae are also found there).[1][2]

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Pogonichthyinae
Notropis spectrunculus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Leuciscidae
Subfamily: Pogonichthyinae
Girard, 1858
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Pogonichthyinae contains the following genera;[3]

The former genus Pararhinichthys, containing only the cheat minnow, is now thought to represent an F1 hybrid of Rhinichthys cataractae and Nocomis micropogon.[4][5][3]

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