Phenacobius mirabilis

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Inhabits gravel and rubble riffles and runs of clear to turbid creeks and small to medium, sometimes large, rivers .

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Exoglossum mirabile • Exoglossum mirabile Girard • Exoglossum mirabile Girard, 1856 • Phenacobius mirabilis • Phenacobius teretulus liosternus Nelson • Sarcidium scopiferum Cope

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 13-May-1994

Similar Species

Fish Name Mouth Barbels Body Pattern Lateral Line Scales Circumferential Scales Dorsal Rays Similarity Index Comment Western Blacknose Dace Subterminal mouth; thick fleshy lips; frenum present Inconspicuous Mottled and/or lateral stripe 60-75 ~ 52 8 Moderately similar Central Stoneroller Subterminal mouth; ridge on lower jaw; no frenum None Mottled and/or lateral stripe 47-58 38-50 8 Moderately similar Gravel Chub Subterminal mouth; thin fleshy lips; no frenum Inconspicuous X, W, & Y markings 38-43 ~ 32 8 Moderately similar Largescale Stoneroller Subterminal mouth; ridge on lower jaw; no frenum None Mottled and/or lateral stripe 41-48 29-38 8 Moderately similar Longnose Dace Inferior mouth; thick fleshy lips; frenum present Inconspicuous Mottled and/or lateral strip 61-75 ~ 54 8 Moderately similar Silver Chub Subterminal mouth; thin fleshy lips; no frenum Inconspicuous Solid silver 37-47 ~ 28 8 Moderately similar Shoal Chub Inferior mouth; thin fleshy lips; no frenum Short but conspicuous Pepper-like spots 36-40 ~ 28 8 Moderately similar Suckermouth Minnow Inferior mouth; thick fleshy lips; no frenum None Lateral stripe (may be faint) 43-51 ~ 34 8 N/A White Sucker Inferior mouth; thick fleshy lips; no frenum None Solid, spotted, or mottled 39-115 ~32-~90 9-15 Moderately similar All suckers at the juvenile stage (Catostomidae: Catostomus, Hypentelium, Minytrema, Moxostoma) are moderately similar and all criteria as described for the white sucker apply.

Members of the genus Phenacobius

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. catostomus (Riffle Minnow) · P. crassilabrum (Fatlips Minnow) · P. mirabilis (Suckermouth Minnow) · P. teretulus (Kanawha Darter) · P. uranops (Stargazing Minnow)

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Further Reading

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• A catalogue of the fishes known to inhabit the waters of North America, north of the Tropic of Cancer, with notes on the species discovered in 1883 and 1884, by David Starr Jordan. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1885. url p. 27.
• A distributional atlas of Upper Mississippi River fishes / [by] Philip W. Smith, Alvin C. Lopinot [and] William L. Pflieger. Urbana: [s. n.]; 1971. url p. 15, p. 7.
• A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Report presented at the eighty-ninth annual meeting, Clearwater, Fla., Sept. 16-18, 1959. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1960. url p. 16.
• A manual of land and fresh water vertebrate animals of the United States (exclusive of birds) by Henry Sherring Pratt. .. Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., inc.[c1935] url p. 81.
• A naturalist in the Great Lakes region, by Elliot Rowland Downing. .. Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press[c1922] url , , , p. 286, p. 316.
• A synoptic list of the fishes known to occur within fifty miles of Chicago, by S. E. Meeks and S. F. Hildebrand. Chicago, 1910. url p. 276.
• An evaluation of Seth E. Meek's contributions to Mexican ichthyology / Robert Rush Miller. 69 1976 [Chicago]: Field Museum of Natural History, 1976. url p. 12.
• An inventory of the fishes of Jordan Creek, Vermilion County, Illinois / R. Weldon Larimore, Quentin H. Pickering, Leonard Durham. Urbana, Ill.: Natural History Survey Division, 1952. url p. 8.
• Animal Ecology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1961. url p. 459.
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• Bio-ecology, by Frederic E. Clements. .. and Victor E. Shelford. .. New York, J. Wiley & Sons, inc.;1939. url p. 417.
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• Fish and Wildlife Habitat Changes Resulting from Construction of a Nine-Foot Channel on Pools 24, 25, and 26 of the Mississippi River and the Lower Illinois River, Ft. BelvoirDefense Technical Information CenterAPR 1979. url p. 241, p. 443.
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Notes

Contributors

• American Fisheries Society. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 20, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• Kullander, Sven O. (from FishBase).
• Lyons, John. WiscFish.org University of Wisconsin, Center for Limnology, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant. Provided photos, physical description, and table comparing similar species.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Fish Collection
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• GBIF-Sweden: Fishes (NRM)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
• Sternberg Museum of Natural History: Fish Collection
• University of Colorado Museum: Zoological specimens
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection
• University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History: Fish specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 135161
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-24263
• Fishbase Species ID: 2923
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13851708
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 163502
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AFCJB30030
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 15893

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