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Slim Minnow

Pimephales tenellus

Classification

The slim minnow (Pimephales tenellus) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. This fish is endemic to the United States, in Ozarks of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Description It is a cylindrically shaped, slender fish, similar in shape to the bluntnose minnow (Pimephalus notatus), with a blunt snout and a slightly oblique mouth which has an upper lip which is much thicker in the middle than at the corners.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 15