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title: "Strzebla potokowa"
description: "Phoxinus phoxinus — Ryby. Phoxinus phoxinus (known colloquially as the Eurasian minnow, minnow, Channel minnow, or common minnow) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, minnows and related fishes."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/european-minnow
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Strzebla potokowa

> Phoxinus phoxinus — Ryby. Phoxinus phoxinus (known colloquially as the Eurasian minnow, minnow, Channel minnow, or common minnow) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, minnows and related fishes.

- Scientific name: *Phoxinus phoxinus*
- Category: `fish` (Ryby)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Jeziora i rzeki)
- iNaturalist observations: 1499
- Wikidata: [Q214278](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214278)
- iNaturalist taxon: [109315](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/109315)

## Names

- en: European Minnow
- de: Elritze
- es: Foxino Euroasiático
- fr: Vairon commun
- nl: Elrits
- pl: Strzebla potokowa

## Countries with the most observations

GB (737), IE (134), BE (60), FR (56), DE (53), DK (38), LU (30), CZ (12), NL (12)

## Summary

Phoxinus phoxinus (known colloquially as the Eurasian minnow, minnow, Channel minnow, or common minnow) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, minnows and related fishes. It is the type species of genus Phoxinus. This taxon was formerly considered to be the only species in the genus Phoxinus found in Europe and to have a wide geographic range in Eurasia, however, it is now regarded as part of a species complex with new species being described across its former range and this species being restricted to Western Europe. It occurs predominantly in cool…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoxinus_phoxinus

## Photo

![Strzebla potokowa](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/european-minnow/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ash David · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/187134216

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/european-minnow?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).