Original description:
- Girard, Charles Frederic. 1856. "Researches upon the cyprinoid fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of the United States, west of the Mississippi Valley, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 8:165-213 (ffm04542)
Type species: Leuciscus tincella Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1844 (subsequent designation).
Described species included (18):
valid: 8 sub-species: 1 synonym: 9- Leuciscus tincella Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1844 (valid)
- Algansea australe Jordan, 1880 (synonym)
- Algansea dugesi Bean, 1892 (synonym)
- Algansea lacustris Steindachner, 1895 (valid)
- Algansea tarascorum Steindachner, 1895 (synonym)
- Xystrosus popoche Jordan & Snyder, 1899 (valid)
- Algansea rubescens Meek, 1902 (synonym)
- Algansea affinis Regan, 1906 (synonym)
- Algansea stigmatura Regan, 1907 (synonym)
- Algansea paratincella Alvarez, 1959 (synonym)
- Algansea barbata Alvarez & Cortés, 1964 (valid)
- Algansea alvarezi Romero, 1967 (synonym)
- Algansea monticola Barbour & Miller, 1968 (valid)
- Algansea aphanea Barbour & Miller, 1978 (valid)
- Algansea monticola avia Barbour & Miller, 1978 (valid)
- Notropis josealvarezi Cortes, 1986 (synonym)
- Algansea monticula archidion Barbour & Miller, 1994 (sub-species)
- Algansea amecae Pérez-Rodríguez, Pérez-Ponce de León, Domínguez-Domínguez & Doadrio, 2009 (valid)