Mudminnows (Umbridae)

General data
- Main name: Mudminnows
Classification
- Order: Esociformes - Pikes
- Class: Teleostei - Ray-finned fishes
- Superclass: Osteichthyes - Bony fishes
Description
Umbridae is a family of small fishes in the pike order Esociformes. The single living genus, Umbra, occupies weed-choked freshwater habitats in eastern North America and eastern Europe. While the family traditionally contained the genera Umbra, Novumbra, and Dallia, recent genetic and paleontological research have recovered this grouping as paraphyletic, with Novumbra and Dallia being moved to the family Esocidae. Distribution Umbridae contains three extant species, all within the genus Umbra:
- Umbra pygmaea,
- Umbra limi, and
- Umbra krameri.