Plagopterinae

{{Short description|Subfamily of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Nashua River Fallfish.jpg

| image_caption = Semotilus corporalis

| taxon = Plagopterinae

| authority = Cope, 1874

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = See text

}}

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.{{Cite journal|last1=Schönhuth|first1=Susana|last2=Vukić|first2=Jasna|last3=Šanda|first3=Radek|last4=Yang|first4=Lei|last5=Mayden|first5=Richard L.|date=2018-10-01|title=Phylogenetic relationships and classification of the Holarctic family Leuciscidae (Cypriniformes: Cyprinoidei)|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790317308618|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|language=en|volume=127|pages=781–799|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.026|pmid=29913311|s2cid=49292104|issn=1055-7903|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite web|date=2018-10-17|title=Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family LEUCISCIDAE: Subfamilies PSEUDASPININAE, LEUCISCINAE and PHOXININAE|url=https://www.etyfish.org/cypriniformes15/|access-date=2020-11-27|website=The ETYFish Project|language=en-US}}