Bluntnose minnow

"Bluntnose minnows" is also used for the genus Pimephales as a whole.

Bluntnose minnow
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Genus: Pimephales
Species:
P. notatus
Binomial name
Pimephales notatus
(Rafinesque, 1820)
Synonyms
  • Minnilus notatus Rafinesque, 1820
  • Hyborhynchus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)
  • Hybopsis tuditanus Cope, 1867
  • Hybopsis haematurus Cope, 1867
  • Hyborhynchus superciliosus Cope, 1868
  • Spinicephalus fibulatus Lesueur, 1896

The bluntnose minnow (Pimephales notatus) is a species of temperate freshwater fish belonging to the genus Pimephales of the cyprinid family. Its natural geographic range extends from the Great Lakes south along the Mississippi River basin to Louisiana, and east across the Midwestern United States to New York State. The bluntnose is very ubiquitous, and may be the most common freshwater fish in the Eastern U.S.[2]

  1. ^ NatureServe (2013). "Pimephales notatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T202346A18230847. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202346A18230847.en. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  2. ^ Page, Lawrence M. and Brooks M. Burr (1991), Freshwater Fishes, p. 129-130, Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY. ISBN 0-395-91091-9