''Erimystax'' is a genus of freshwater
ray-finned fish
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...
elonging to the
family
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Leuciscidae
Leuciscidae is a family of freshwater ray-finned fishes, formerly classified as a subfamily of the Cyprinidae, which contains the true minnows.
Members of the Old World (OW) clade of minnows within this subfamily are known as European minnow ...
, the shiners, daces and minnows.
Members are commonly known as slender chubs, though "slender chub" is also used for individual species local to some area, particularly ''
Erimystax cahni''.
Species
* ''
Erimystax cahni''
( C. L. Hubbs & Crowe, 1956) (slender chub)
* ''
Erimystax dissimilis''
( Kirtland, 1840) (streamline chub)
* ''
Erimystax harryi''
(C. L. Hubbs & Crowe, 1956) (Ozark chub)
* ''
Erimystax insignis''
(C. L. Hubbs & Crowe, 1956) (blotched chub)
* ''
Erimystax x-punctatus''
(C. L. Hubbs & Crowe, 1956) (gravel chub)
References
*
Pogonichthyinae
Fish of North America
Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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