Plains minnow

Plains minnow
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Cypriniformes
Family:Cyprinidae
Subfamily:Leuciscinae
Genus:Hybognathus
Species: H. placitus
Binomial name
Hybognathus placitus
Girard, 1856
Synonyms
  • Tirodon amnigenus Hay, 1882

The plains minnow (Hybognathus placitus) is one of the 324 fish species found in Tennessee.

It ranges from the Mississippi River in Tennessee west in the Missouri, Arkansas, Red, Brazos, and Colorado River drainages from Montana and North Dakota south to New Mexico and Texas. It is one of the more common fishes of the western plains.[2]

References

  1. NatureServe (2015). "Hybognathus placitus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T202114A76578578. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-1.RLTS.T202114A76578578.en.
  2. Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes p218

Page, Lawrence M., and Brooks M. Burr. Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of North America North of Mexico. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. 218. Print.


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