Phoxinus

Thesaurus

Noun

Phoxinus - minnows genus Phoxinusfish genus - any of various genus of fishCyprinidae, family Cyprinidae - a family of fish including: carp; tench; roach; rudd; daceminnow, Phoxinus phoxinus - very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams

Phoxinus

a genus of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae family.

The body length of Phoxinus does not exceed 20 cm. The scales are small. There are about 10 species, found in the rivers of Europe, Asia, and North America. The coloring of the minnow, P. phoxinus, is very bright during spawning. Other species of Phoxinus are found in small rivers, irrigation ditches, swamp springs, and lakes. P. percnurus(length, to 15 cm; weight, to 100 g) is important commercially in Yakutia.

REFERENCE

Berg, L. S. Ryby presnykh vod SSSR i sopredel’nykh stran, 4th ed., part 2. Moscow-Leningrad, 1949.

Phoxinus

noun

Synonyms for Phoxinus

noun minnows

Synonyms

genus Phoxinus

Related Words

fish genus
Cyprinidae
family Cyprinidae
minnow
Phoxinus phoxinus

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