Tampichthys

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Tampichthys | authority = Schönhuth, Doadrio, Domínguez-Domínguez, Hillis & Mayden, 2008<ref name = "Cof family">{{Cof family|family=Pogonichthyinae|access-date=21 March 2025}}</ref> | type_species = ''Notropis rasconis'' | type_species_authority = D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1899 }}

'''''Tampichthys''''' is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows.<ref name = "Cof family"/> The fishes in this genus are endemic to east–central Mexico.<ref name=FishBase>{{FishBase genus | genus = Tampichthys| month = September | year = 2018}}</ref><ref name=Schonhuth2008>{{cite journal | author1=Schönhuth, S. | author2=I. Doadrio | author3=O. Dominguez-Dominguez | author4=D.M. Hillis | author5=R.L. Mayden | year=2008 | title=Molecular evolution of southern North American Cyprinidae (Actinopterygii), with the description of the new genus Tampichthys from central Mexico | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=47 | issue=2 | pages=729–756 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2007.11.036 | pmid=18353691 }}</ref> They are entirely restricted to the Pánuco River basin, except ''T. ipni'', which also occurs in some other Mexican rivers that drain into the Gulf of Mexico.<ref name=Schonhuth2008/>

These are small fish, generally no more than {{cvt|9|cm|in}} long,<ref name=FishBase/> and overall brownish-silvery with a distinct dark horizontal line from the head to the tail base.<ref name=Schonhuth2008/>

==Species== ''Tampichthys'' was formerly considered a part of ''Dionda'' instead of a separate genus.<ref name=Schonhuth2008/> Below is a list of the described species in ''Tampichthys'',<ref name="Cof genus">{{Cof genus|genus=Tampichthys|access-date=21 March 2025}}</ref> but undescribed species are known.<ref name=Schonhuth2008/>

* ''Tampichthys catostomops'' (C. L. Hubbs & R. R. Miller, 1977) (Pánuco minnow) * ''Tampichthys dichromus'' (C. L. Hubbs & R. R. Miller, 1977) (Bicolor minnow) * ''Tampichthys erimyzonops'' (C. L. Hubbs & R. R. Miller, 1974) (Chubsucker minnow) * ''Tampichthys ipni'' (Álvarez & L. Navarro, 1953) (Lantern minnow) * ''Tampichthys mandibularis'' (Contreras-Balderas & Verduzco-Martínez, 1977) (Flatjaw minnow) * ''Tampichthys rasconis'' (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1899) (Blackstripe minnow)

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Tampichthys Category:Pogonichthyinae Category:Freshwater fish of Mexico Category:Taxa named by Ignacio Doadrio Villarejo