Siphateles
| Siphateles Temporal range:
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| Tui chub (Siphateles bicolor) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Laviniinae |
| Genus: | Siphateles Cope, 1883 |
| Type species | |
| Siphateles vittatus Cope, 1883
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| Species | |
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3, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke; R. van der Laan, eds. (1 December 2017). "Catalog of Fishes". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Siphateles". FishBase. June 2017 version.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Lugaski, Thomas (1979). "Gila traini, a New Pliocene Cyprinid Fish from Jersey Valley, Nevada". Journal of Paleontology. 53 (5): 1160–1164. ISSN 0022-3360.
- ^ 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.
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