Bluntnose minnow (
Pimephales notatus): The bluntnose minnow is a primary bait fish for Northern America, and has a very high tolerance for variable water qualities, which helps its distribution throughout many regions. The snout of the bluntnose minnow overhangs the mouth, giving it the bluntnose. There is a dark lateral line which stretches from the opercle to the base of the tail, where a large black spot is located. The average size of the adult is approximately .
Common shiner (
Notropis cornutus): These fish are one of the most common type of bait fish and are almost exclusively stream dwellers. The common shiner can be identified by the nine rays on its anal fin and terminal mouth. This minnow is typically bluish silver on the sides and greenish blue on the back, save for breeding season in which case the male gains a rose colored tail and anal fin. The shiner grows about within one year and reach a size of at adulthood.
Notropis potteri is known as the
chub shiner.
Common emerald shiner (
Notropis atherinoides atherinoides): Common emerald shiners are most abundant in the
Great Lakes of North America, primarily Lake Erie. The name of the emerald shiner comes from the greenish emerald band that expands from the back of the gill cover to the tail. This type of minnow has a short, rounded snout, the only difference between the common emerald shiner and the silver shiner is that the silver shiner has a longer snout and a larger eye. These fish grow to an average length of about 6 cm. This is one of the most common bait fish used in the Lake Erie region of Ohio and many fishermen hold it over all other bait. •
Cheat minnow, a species in the genus
Pararhinichthys •
Cutlips minnow, a species in the genus
Exoglossum •
Desert minnows, fishes in the genus
Dionda •
Eurasian minnows, fishes in the genus
Phoxinus •
Fathead minnow (rosy-red minnow), a species in the genus
Pimephales •
Loach minnow, a species of the genus
Rhinichthys • Balkan minnows, of the genus
Pelasgus •
Ozark minnow, a species in the
shiner genus
Notropis •
Pikeminnows, fishes in the genus
Ptychocheilus •
Pugnose minnow, a species in the genus
Opsopoeodus • Anatolian minnows, of the genus
Ladigesocypris •
Silverjaw minnow/
Longjaw minnow, species in the genus
Ericymba •
Silvery minnows, fishes in the genus
Hybognathus •
Suckermouth minnows, fishes in the genus
Phenacobius •
White Cloud Mountain minnow/Vietnamese cardinal minnow, species in the genus
Tanichthys Other fish specifically called minnows include • in the Southern Hemisphere, some fish in the family Galaxiidae, in particular those of genus
Galaxias • in Southeast Asia, the
danionins, including
Razorbelly minnows • the
Drakensberg minnow (
Labeobarbus aspius) from the Congo Democratic Republic • the
Maluti minnow (
Pseudobarbus quathlambae) from Lesotho • the Falklands minnow from the
Falkland Islands, a vernacular name for the
Common galaxias • the
pike topminnow (
Belonesox belizanus) are confused for the
northern pike, (
Esox lucius), also called "minnow" for the little size. • the
minnows of the deep (
Cyclothone sp.), small bioluminescent bristlemouth fish approximately long visiting Anderson Farms, the world's largest minnow farm, in
Lonoke, Arkansas. ==As food==