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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the subfamily Leuciscinae — the dace, chub, and similar fish.

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Examples

  • Several species in the Yenisey and Lena Rivers that prefer warmer boreal-plain habitats (e.g., roach, ide, common dace – Leuciscus leuciscus baicalensis, European perch, and ruffe – Gymnocephalus cernuus) are likely to move into the northern mouth areas of these rivers that are currently dominated by whitefishes and chars.

    Climate change effects on arctic freshwater fish populations 2009

  • Over the last 10 to 15 years, northern pike, ide (Leuciscus idus), and roach (Rutilus rutilus lacustris) have become much more numerous in the Pechora River Delta and the estuary Sredinnaya Guba (~68° N) of the Barents Sea [7].

    Climate change effects on arctic freshwater fish populations 2009

  • Of the fishes of our neighbourhood I have been furnished with the following list by the greatest local authority, who has inherited, and personally acquired, an intimate knowledge of the subject: — Trout (Salmo fario), river Bain; grayling (Thymallus vulgaris), Bain; pike (Esox lucius), canal, ponds, Witham; chub (Leuciscus cephalus), Bain; carp

    Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

  • Dace, Dare, or Dait _Leuciscus vulgaris_, or i 404

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • I caught two or three large red chivin (Leuciscus pulchellus) early this morning, within twenty feet of the camp, which, added to the moose-tongue, that had been left in the kettle boiling over night, and to our other stores, made a sumptuous breakfast.

    The Maine Woods 1858

  • The Dace, Leuciscus argenteus, is a slight silvery minnow, found generally in the middle of the stream, where the current is most rapid, and frequently confounded with the last named.

    A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

  • The Shiner, Leuciscus crysoleucas, is a soft-scaled and tender fish, the victim of its stronger neighbors, found in all places, deep and shallow, clear and turbid; generally the first nibbler at the bait, but, with its small mouth and nibbling propensities, not easily caught.

    A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

  • There have been caught in Walden pickerel, one weighing seven pounds -- to say nothing of another which carried off a reel with great velocity, which the fisherman safely set down at eight pounds because he did not see him -- perch and pouts, some of each weighing over two pounds, shiners, chivins or roach (Leuciscus pulchellus), a very few breams, and

    Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839

  • 114° Fahr., and a roach, _Leuciscus thermalis_, when the thermometer indicated 50° Cent, 122° Fahr.

    Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836

  • 114° Fahr., and a roach, _Leuciscus thermalis_, when the thermometer indicated 50° Cent.,

    Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836

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