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Cyprinidae
minnow
Phoxinus phoxinus
Fourteen Centimeters Carp of the Atlantic Ocean
- Temperate
- Upper river
- Circumpolar Arctic
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Central Asia
- East Asia
- Europe
- Polar regions
- Elongated
- Small
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Elongated
Smallminnow is a freshwater fish found around Eurasia. It inhabits freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 14 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Phoxinus
- Maximum length
- 14 cm
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Eurasia: basins of Atlantic, North and Baltic Seas, Arctic and northern Pacific Ocean, from Garonne (France) eastward to Anadyr and Amur drainages and Korea; Ireland (possibly introduced), Great Britain northward to 58°N. Scandinavia and Russia northernmost extremity, Rhône drainage. Recorded from upper and middle Volga and Ural drainages, Lake Balkhash (Kazakhstan) and upper Syr-Darya drainage (Aral basin), but else identifications need verification. At least one country reports adverse ecological impact after introduction. Several species are confused under Phoxinus phoxinus .
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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Family
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