''Leuciscus'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of freshwater and
brackish water ray-finned fishes belonging to the
family 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 ...
, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. They are inland water fishes commonly called Eurasian daces. The genus is widespread from
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east ...
to
Siberia. Species broadly distributed in Europe include the
common dace ''Leuciscus leuciscus'' and the
ide ''L. idus''.
The
European chubs were formerly also included in ''Leuciscus'', but they are now usually separated in another genus, ''
Squalius'' (e.g.
the chub, ''Squalius cephalus''). The delimitation of ''Leuciscus'' and ''Squalius'' is not completely resolved; some species have been moved from one genus to the other only in recent years. The genera ''
Petroleuciscus'' and ''
Telestes'' have also been split off from ''Leuciscus'' recently; for the latter the same holds true as for ''Squalius'' regarding the unclear delimitations.
Species
''Leuciscus'' contains the following species:
* ''
Leuciscus aspius''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758) (asp)
* ''
Leuciscus baicalensis''
( Dybowski, 1874) (Siberian dace)
* ''
Leuciscus bearnensis''
( Blanchard, 1866) (Bearn beaked dace)
* ''
Leuciscus bergi''
Kashkarov, 1925
* ''
Leuciscus burdigalensis''
Valenciennes, 1844 (beaked dace)
* ''
Leuciscus chuanchicus''
( Kessler, 1876)
* ''
Leuciscus danilewskii''
( Kessler, 1877) (Danilevskii's dace)
* ''
Leuciscus dzungaricus''
Paepke & F. Koch, 1998
* ''
Leuciscus idus''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758) (ide)
* ''
Leuciscus latus''
( Keyserling, 1861)
* ''
Leuciscus lehmanni''
J. F. Brandt, 1852 (Zeravshan dace)
* ''
Leuciscus leuciscus''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758) (common dace)
* ''
Leuciscus lindbergi''
Zanin & Eremejev, 1934
* ''
Leuciscus merzbacheri''
( Zugmayer, 1912)
* ''
Leuciscus oxianus''
(Kessler 1877)
* ''
Leuciscus oxyrrhis''
( La Blanchère, 1873) (long-snout dace)
* ''
Leuciscus schmidti''
( Herzenstein, 1896)
* ''
Leuciscus vorax''
( Heckel, 1843)
* ''
Leuciscus waleckii''
( Dybowski, 1869) (Amur ide)
References
Leuciscinae
Taxa named by Georges Cuvier
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