Plagopterinae


Plagopterinae is a subfamily of the freshwater fish family Leuciscidae, which contains the true minnows. Members of this family are known as creek chubs or the creek chub-plagopterin clade of minnows. All members of this family are found in North America, and it includes among the northernmost-distributed of all North American minnows, the lake chub.

Genera

Couesius D. S. Jordan, 1878 Hemitremia Cope, 1870 Lepidomeda Cope, 1874 Margariscus Cockerell, 1909 Meda Girard, 1856 Plagopterus Cope, 1874 Semotilus Rafinesque, 1820