''Tropidophoxinellus'' is a genus of
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 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
dace
A dace is a small fish that can be one of many different species. The unmodified name is usually a reference to the common dace (''Leuciscus leuciscus''). This, like most fish called "daces", belongs to the family Leuciscidae, mostly in subfami ...
s,
Eurasian minnows and related species.
There are currently four described species, these fishes are found in Greece and North Africa.
A DNA-based phylogenetic biogeographical report carried out in 2010 recommended that ''
Pseudophoxinus callensis'' and ''P. chaignoni'' from
North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region. However, it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of t ...
be added.
However, this report was not universally accepted.
Species
* ''
Tropidophoxinellus callensis''
( Guichenot, 1850)
* ''
Tropidophoxinellus chaignoni''
( Vaillant, 1904)
* ''
Tropidophoxinellus hellenicus''
( Stephanidis, 1971)
* ''
Tropidophoxinellus spartiaticus''
( Schmidt-Ries, 1943)
References
Leuciscinae
Cyprinid fish of Europe
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxa named by Alexander I. Stephanidis
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