Updated 8 April 2024
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Phoxinus Rafinesque 1820 presumably tautonymous Cyprinus phoxinus Linnaeus 1758 (proposed for European species but no species mentioned), from phoxī́nos (Gr. φοξῖνος), a small freshwater fish, applied to minnows by Belon (1553), perhaps derived from phoxós (Gr. φοξός), pointed or tapered

Phoxinus abanticus Turan, Bayçelebi, Özuluğ, Gaygusuz & Aksu 2023 –icus (L.), belonging to: outlet of Lake Abant, Bolu Province, Turkey, type locality

Phoxinus adagumicus Artaev, Turbanov, Bolotovskiy, Gandlin & Levin 2024 –icus (L.), belonging to: Adagum River drainage, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, where it occurs

Phoxinus bigerri Kottelat 2007 named for Biggeri, Gaul tribe who inhabited area more or less corresponding with Adour drainage (France), type locality)

Phoxinus brachyurus Berg 1912 short-tailed, from brachýs (Gr. βραχύς), short, and urus, from ourá (Gr. οὐρά), tail, presumably referring to its short, compressed caudal peduncle

Phoxinus brachyurus tschuensis Pivnev 1985 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Chu River, Kyrgyzstan, type locality

Phoxinus chrysoprasius (Pallas 1814) etymology not explained, presumably from chrysós (Gr. χρυσός), gold or golden, possibly referring to overall golden-bronze color and/or golden stripe on sides; prasius (L.), prase, a precious stone of a leek-green color, allusion not explained nor evident (Pallas did not mention green in his description)

Phoxinus colchicus Berg 1910 –icus (L.), belonging to: Colchis, ancient name for eastern coast of Black Sea in Georgia, type locality

Phoxinus csikii Hankó 1922 in honor of Hungarian entomologist Ernst Csiki (1875–1954), director of the Hungarian National (now Natural History) Museum (Budapest), who collected holotype (now lost, probably due to a 1956 museum fire)

Phoxinus dragarum Denys, Dettaï, Persat, Daszkiewicz, Hautecoeur & Keith 2020 –arum (L.), commemorative suffix, plural: dragas, fairies in Occitan folklore, and companions of the Drac, a kind of dragon living in streams of the Garonne River basin of France, where this minnow occurs

Phoxinus fayollarum Denys, Dettaï, Persat, Daszkiewicz, Hautecoeur & Keith 2020 –arum (L.), commemorative suffix, plural: fayolles, fairies in regional Auvergne (France) folklore, who live along the headwaters of the Loire drainage (where this minnow is common) and create springs, including the thermal springs of Vichy, France

Phoxinus grumi Berg 1907 in honor of entomologist and explored of Central-Asia Grigory Grumm-Grzhimaylo (1860–1936), who led expedition during which holotype was collected (Berg spelled name with one “m”)

Phoxinus isetensis (Georgi 1775) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: not identified but probably Iset River, which flows through or near Cartharinopolis (=Yekaterinburg) Siberia, Russia, type locality

Phoxinus issykkulensis Berg 1912 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, type locality

Phoxinus issykkulensis relictus Turdakov & Piskarev 1954 Latin for relict, a relict form of P. issykkulensis from the Upper Chu River, Kyrgyzstan [possibly extinct]

Phoxinus karsticus Bianco & De Bonis 2015 –icus (L.), belonging to: karst, referring to the Karstic Popovo Polje-Trebinje endorheic river system of Bosnia-Herzegovina, type locality

Phoxinus krkae Bogutskaya, Jelić, Vucić, Jelić, Diripasko, Stefanov & Klobučar 2019 of the Krka River (Adriatic Basin), Croatia, type locality

Phoxinus lumaireul (Schinz 1840) etymology unknown; an unpublished name attributed to Italian naturalist Francis Albert Bonelli (or Bonnelli, 1784–1830), mentioned in 1835 by Agassiz without description and made available by Schinz

Phoxinus marsilii Heckel 1836 in honor of Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658–1730, also spelled Marsigli), Italian solider and naturalist, who published an illustration of this species (“Cobitis. Pfriln.”) in his Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus (vol. 4) of 1726

Phoxinus oxyrhynchus (Mori 1930) sharp-snouted, from oxýs (Gr. ὀξύς), sharp or pointed, and rhýnchos (Gr. ῥύγχος), snout, referring to its long, much-produced snout, with a “pointed fleshy cone” that projects beyond lower lip

Phoxinus phoxinus (Linnaeus 1758) from phoxī́nos (Gr. φοξῖνος), a small freshwater fish, applied to minnows by Belon (1553), perhaps derived from phoxós (Gr. φοξός), pointed or tapered

Phoxinus poljakowii Kessler 1879 in honor of Siberian explorer and conservator Ivan Semonovich Poljakow (1845–1887), who collected holotype

Phoxinus radeki Bayçelebi, Aksu & Turan 2024 in honor of Radek Sanda, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, for his contribution to the knowledge of the fishes of Europe

Phoxinus septimaniae Kottelat 2007 of Septimania, a region of the Roman province Galia Narbonensis more or less corresponding with present-day Languedoc-Roussillon (France), where this species occurs

Phoxinus strandjae Drensky 1926 of the Strandja (also spelled Strandscha) mountain massif in southeastern Bulgaria, type locality

Phoxinus strymonicus Kottelat 2007 –icus (L.), belonging to: Strymon, river in Macedonia, Greece, type locality

Phoxinus tchangi Chen 1988 in honor of Tchunlin (or Tchung-Lin) Tchang (1897–1963), for his achievements in ichthyology

Phoxinus tumensis Luo 1996 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Tumen River, border between Jilin Province in Manchuria and North Hamgyong and Yanggang provinces in North Korea, type locality

Phoxinus ujmonensis Kaschenko 1899 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Uimon village, Siberia, Russia, near type locality at Katun River, Ob River basin