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.

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