Plagopterinae

Plagopterinae is a subfamily of the freshwater fish family Leuciscidae, which contains the true minnows. Members of this family are known as creek chubs or the creek chub-plagopterin (CC-P) clade of minnows. All members of this family are found in North America, and it includes among the northernmost-distributed of all North American minnows, the lake chub.^[1][2]

Plagopterinae
Semotilus corporalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
Subfamily:	Plagopterinae Cope, 1874
Genera
See text

Genera

• Couesius D. S. Jordan, 1878 (lake chub)
• Hemitremia Cope, 1870 (flame chub)
• Lepidomeda Cope, 1874 (spinedaces)
• Margariscus Cockerell, 1909 (pearl daces)
• Meda Girard, 1856 (spikedace)
• Plagopterus Cope, 1874 (woundfin)
• Semotilus Rafinesque, 1820 (creek chubs)