Leuciscinae

{{Short description|Subfamily of freshwater fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Early Miocene|present}}

| image = Leuciscus leuciscus Hungary.jpg

| image_caption = Common dace (Leuciscus leuciscus)

| taxon = Leuciscinae

| authority = Bonaparte, 1835{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer |author2-link=William N. Eschmeyer| author3 = Ronald Fricke |author3-link = Ronald Fricke| name-list-style = amp |year=2014 | title = Family-group names of recent fishes | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue = 2 | pages = 1–230| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = See text

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Leuciscinae is a subfamily of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the fishes known as daces, chubs, shiners and minnows. The fishes in this subfamily are mainly found in Eurasia, with one genus (Notemigonus) in North America.

Genera

Leuciscinae contains the following genera:{{Cof family|family=Leuciscinae|access-date=22 March 2025}}

File:Palaeoleuciscus oeningensis.JPG]]

The extinct genus †Palaeoleuciscus Obrhelová, 1969 is known from the Early Miocene of Europe.{{Cite journal |last=Gaudant |first=Jean |date=1994-03-01 |title=Sur la présence du genrePalaeoleuciscus ObrhelovÁ (Poissons téléostéens, Cyprinidae) dans le Miocène inférieur ou moyen (?) du Dietrichsberg, près de Vacha (Thuringe) |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02989442 |journal=PalZ |language=de |volume=68 |issue=1 |pages=223–243 |doi=10.1007/BF02989442 |issn=1867-6812|url-access=subscription }} A well-preserved fossil specimen of an indeterminate leuciscine is known from the Pliocene of the Chotanagpur Plateau of India, suggesting that leuciscines also inhabited India during this time.{{Cite journal |last=Hazra |first=Manoshi |last2=Hazra |first2=Taposhi |last3=Bera |first3=Subir |last4=Khan |first4=Mahasin Ali |date=2020-10-25 |title=Occurrence of a Cyprinid Fish (Leuciscinae) from Latest Neogene (?Pliocene) Sediments of Chotanagpur Plateau, Eastern India |url=https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/119/08/1367.pdf |journal=Current Science |volume=119 |issue=8 |pages=1367 |doi=10.18520/cs/v119/i8/1367-1370 |issn=0011-3891}}

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