Small Central Asian fish mistaken for minnows for 150 years are actually a distinct genus

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In the shallow, weed-choked streams of Central Asia, small fish have swam under a misapprehension for roughly 150 years. Known locally and in textbooks as minnows, they were routinely filed away into the genus Phoxinus, a broad and unremarkable category of carp. Yet when researchers subjected specimens from the basins of Balkhash, Alakol, and Issyk-Kul to detailed morphological examination and…

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