Phenacobius mirabilis

Phenacobius mirabilis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Leuciscidae
Subfamily: Pogonichthyinae
Genus: Phenacobius
Species:
P. mirabilis
Binomial name
Phenacobius mirabilis
(Girard, 1856)
Synonyms
  • Exoglossum mirabile Girard, 1856
  • Sarcidium scopiferum Cope, 1871
  • Phenacobius teretulus var. liosternus E. W. Nelson, 1876

Phenacobius mirabilis, or the suckermouth minnow, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish beloinging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. This species is found in North America where it occurs in the Mississippi River basin from Ohio and West Virginia to Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico, and from southeastern Minnesota to northern Alabama and southern Oklahoma. It also occurs in the western Lake Erie drainage in Ohio.