''Tampichthys'' is a

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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 ...

belonging to the

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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. The fishies in this genus are

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to east–central

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. They are entirely restricted to the

Pánuco River The Pánuco River (, ), also known as the ''Río de Canoas'', is a river in Mexico fed by several tributaries including the Moctezuma River and emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. The river is approximately long and passes through or borders the ...

basin, except ''T. ipni'' which also occurs in some other Mexican rivers that drain into the

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. These are small fish, generally no more than long, and overall brownish-silvery with a distinct dark horizontal line from the head to the tail base.

Species

''Tampichthys'' was formerly considered a part of '' Dionda'' instead of a separate genus. Below is a list of the described species in ''Tampichthys'', but

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are known. * '' Tampichthys catostomops'' ( C. L. Hubbs & R. R. Miller, 1977) (Pánuco minnow) * '' Tampichthys dichromus'' (C. L. Hubbs & R. R. Miller, 1977) (Bicolor minnow) * '' Tampichthys erimyzonops'' (C. L. Hubbs & R. R. Miller, 1974) (Chubsucker minnow) * '' Tampichthys ipni'' ( Álvarez & L. Navarro, 1953) (Lantern minnow) * '' Tampichthys mandibularis'' ( Contreras-Balderas & Verduzco-Martínez, 1977) (Flatjaw minnow) * '' Tampichthys rasconis'' ( D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1899) (Blackstripe minnow)

References

Pogonichthyinae Freshwater fish of Mexico Taxa named by Ignacio Doadrio Villarejo {{Leuciscinae-stub