Siphateles

Siphateles Temporal range: Middle Pliocene to present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Tui chub (Siphateles bicolor)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
Subfamily:	Laviniinae
Genus:	Siphateles Cope, 1883
Type species
Siphateles vittatus Cope, 1883
Species
3, see text
Synonyms
Leucidius Snyder, 1917

Siphateles is a genus of fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, native to the Western United States. ^{[1] [2] [3]} They were formerly placed in the genus Gila . ^{[1] [3]}

Species

The species include: ^[2]

• Siphateles alvordensis C. L. Hubbs & R. R. Miller, 1972 (Alvord chub)
• Siphateles bicolor (Girard, 1856) (Tui chub)
  • Siphateles bicolor bicolor (Girard, 1856) (Tui chub)
  • Siphateles bicolor isolata C. L. Hubbs & R. R. Miller, 1972 (Independence Valley tui chub)
  • Siphateles bicolor mohavensis (Snyder, 1918) (Mohave tui chub)
  • Siphateles bicolor obesa (Girard, 1856)
  • Siphateles bicolor pectinifer (Snyder, 1917)
  • Siphateles bicolor snyderi R. R. Miller, 1973 (Owens tui chub)
  • Siphateles bicolor vaccaceps F. T. Bills & C. E. Bond, 1980
• Siphateles boraxobius J. E. Williams & C. E. Bond, 1980 (Borax Lake chub)

A single fossil species, † Siphateles traini (Lugaski, 1979) has been described from complete specimens recovered from the middle Pliocene-aged Jersey Valley of Nevada. ^{[4] [5]}

References

1. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke; R. van der Laan, eds. (1 December 2017). "Catalog of Fishes". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Siphateles". FishBase . June 2017 version.
3. Harris, Phillip M. (2000). Systematic studies of the genus Siphateles (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae) from western North America (Ph.D. thesis). Oregon State University. hdl:1957/9829.
4. Lugaski, Thomas (1979). "Gila traini, a New Pliocene Cyprinid Fish from Jersey Valley, Nevada". Journal of Paleontology. 53 (5): 1160–1164. ISSN   0022-3360. JSTOR   1304094.
5. Kelly, Thomas S. (2010). "A NEW CHUB (ACTINOPTERYGII, CYPRINIFORMES, CYPRINIDAE) FROM THE MIDDLE MIOCENE (EARLY CLARENDONIAN) ALDRICH STATION FORMATION, LYON COUNTY, NEVADA" (PDF). Paludicola. 7 (4): 137–157.