Leopard dace | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Cyprinidae |
Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
Clade: | Pogonichthyinae |
Genus: | Rhinichthys |
Species: | R. falcatus |
Binomial name | |
Rhinichthys falcatus | |
Synonyms | |
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Leopard dace (Rhinichthys falcatus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Rhinichthys . It is found in the United States and Canada, where it inhabits the Fraser and Columbia river drainages in British Columbia, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
The Grass Valley speckled dace occurred in a single spring-fed creek in a grassy meadow in eastern Lander County, Nevada. Specimens were collected only once, in 1938 and it was then common. The species had a distinctive speckled lower lip and silver sided body. The introduction of brook and rainbow trout to the creek is believed to be the reason for their extinction.
The Banff longnose dace was a diminutive version of the eastern longnose dace, its range restricted to a small marsh fed by two hot springs on Sulphur Mountain in Banff National Park in Banff, Alberta.
The giant salmon carp, also termed the Mekong giant salmon carp, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae and the single species in the monotypic genus Aaptosyax. It is endemic to the middle reaches of the Mekong River in northern Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. Its population is much reduced (>90%) as a result of overfishing and habitat degradation, and it is now considered Critically Endangered.
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Telestes fontinalis, the Spring pijor, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found only in Croatia. Its natural habitats are intermittent rivers and inland karsts. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Umpqua dace is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Rhinichthys. It is endemic to the United States where it inhabits the Umpqua River drainage in Oregon.
Umatilla dace is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Rhinichthys. It is found in the drainage basin of the Columbia River in British Columbia, Washington state, Oregon and Idaho.
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The redside shiner is a species of cyprinid fish found in the western United States and Canada.
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