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Hybognathus placitus Girard, 1856

Plains minnow
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Common names: Plains minnow
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from Missouri, Arkansas, Red, Brazos, and Colorado River drainages from Montana and North Dakota south to New Mexico and Texas; Mississippi River from mouth of Missouri River to Tennessee (Ref. 86798). Recorded from the western tributaries to the Mississippi River from the upper Missouri River south, and in the western Gulf of Mexico through the Colorado River drainage of Texas (Ref. 10294). Common but sometimes abundant in Great Plains. Introduced in Pecos River in New Mexico (Ref. 86798). Also Ref. 5723. Status of threat: vulnerable. Criteria: 1 (http://fisc.er.usgs.gov/afs/) (Ref. 81264).
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.nmfs.gov
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 2011
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Méné des plaines, Jeleček coloradský, Tasandiku peitellõug, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Cypriniformes (Carps) > Leuciscidae (Minnows) > Pogonichthyinae
Etymology: Hybognathus: Greek, ybos, -e, -on = curved + Greek, gnathos = jaw; with bulging jaw (Ref. 45335);  placitus: From the word placitus, meaning broad surface (referring to the relatively broad head) (Ref. 10294).
  More on author: Girard.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; brackish; demersal.   Subtropical; 47°N - 32°N

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