Leuciscinae Explained

Leuciscinae is a subfamily of the freshwater fish family Cyprinidae,[1] which contains the true minnows.[2]

Members of the Old World (OW) clade of minnows within this subfamily are known as European minnows. As the name suggests, most members of the OW clade are found in Eurasia, aside from the golden shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas), which is found in eastern North America.[3] [4]

According to ancestral area reconstruction, the subfamily Leuiciscinae is thought to have originated in Europe before becoming widely distributed in parts of Europe, Asia and North America. Evidence for the dispersal of this subfamily can be marked by biogeographical scenarios/observations, geomorphological changes, phylogenetic relationships as well as evidence for vicariance events taking place through time.[5] Through analyses and evidence of divergence time, it was observed that the two monophyletic groups, the phoxinins and the leuciscins, had shared a common ancestor dating to approximately 70.7 million years ago, representing their lengthy evolutionary history.[6] The 5th edition of the Fishes of the World classifies the Leuciscinae as a subfamily of the Cyprinidae[1] but other classifications have resolved this taxon as a family, the Leuciscidae.[4]

Genera

According to a 2018 study, Leuciscinae may be subdivided into 6 clades, or, if Leuciscidae is treated as a valid family, subfamilies:

Notes and References

  1. Book: Fishes of the World . 5th . J. S. Nelson . T. C. Grande . M. V. H. Wilson . 2016 . 181–186 . Wiley . 978-1-118-34233-6 .
  2. http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/TaxonTree.aspx?id=43602&tree=0.1 Taxonomic information
  3. Web site: 2018-10-17. Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family LEUCISCIDAE: Subfamilies PSEUDASPININAE, LEUCISCINAE and PHOXININAE. 2020-11-27. The ETYFish Project. en-US.
  4. Schönhuth. Susana. Vukić. Jasna. Šanda. Radek. Yang. Lei. Mayden. Richard L.. 2018-10-01. Phylogenetic relationships and classification of the Holarctic family Leuciscidae (Cypriniformes: Cyprinoidei). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. en. 127. 781–799. 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.026. 29913311. 2018MolPE.127..781S . 49292104 . 1055-7903.
  5. Phylogeny and biogeography of highly diverged freshwater fish species (Leuciscinae, Cyprinidae, Teleostei) inferred from mitochondrial genome analysis. Imoto, J. M. . Saitoh, K. . Sasaki, T. . Yonezawa, T. . Adachi, J. . Kartavtsev, Y. P. . Miya, M. . Nishida, M. . Hanzawa, N. . Gene. 2013. 514. 2. 112–124. 10.1016/j.gene.2012.10.019. 23174367.
  6. Web site: 2018-10-17. Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family LEUCISCIDAE: Subfamilies PSEUDASPININAE, LEUCISCINAE and PHOXININAE. 2020-11-26. The ETYFish Project. en-US.
  7. De-Zao . S. U. . 2011-06-15 . A NEW CYPRINID FISH FROM PALEOGENE OF NORTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA . Vertebrata PalAsiatica . en . 49 . 2 . 141 . 2096-9899.
  8. Web site: Paleontology . Institute of Vertebrae . Paleoanthropology . New leuciscin fish found in northern China . 2024-07-19 . phys.org . en.

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