Phenacobius mirabilis

Phenacobius mirabilis, or the suckermouth minnow, is a North American cyprinid fish, where it occurs in the Mississippi River basin from Ohio and West Virginia to Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico, and from southeastern Minnesota to northern Alabama and southern Oklahoma. It also occurs in the western Lake Erie drainage in Ohio.

Phenacobius mirabilis

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Genus: Phenacobius
Species:
P. mirabilis
Binomial name
Phenacobius mirabilis
(Girard, 1856)
Synonyms
  • Exoglossum mirabile Girard, 1856
  • Sarcidium scopiferum Cope, 1871

References

  1. NatureServe (2016). "Phenacobius mirabilis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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