Biology:Cheat minnow

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Biology:Cheat minnow
Scientific classificationEdit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Clade: Pogonichthyinae
Hybrid: Nocomis micropogon × Rhinichthys cataractae
Synonyms
  • Rhinichthys bowersi Goldsborough & Clark, 1908
  • Pararhinichthys bowsersi (Goldsborough & Clark, 1908)

The cheat minnow is a hybrid demersal, freshwater fish endemic to the United States, most commonly found in the Ohio River basin.[1] Originally considered the only species in the genus Pararhinichthys as Pararhinichthys bowersi, more recent studies suggest that it is an F1 hybrid of Rhinichthys cataractae and Nocomis micropogon.[2][3][4][5] It is no longer recognized as a distinct taxon by Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes.[6]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). "Pararhinichthys bowersi" in FishBase. December 2017 version.
  2. "Pararhinichthys bowersi". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=553396. 
  3. Cooper JE (1980). "Egg, Larval and Juvenile Development of Longnose Dace, Rhinichthys cataractae, and River Chub, Nocomis micropogon, with Notes on Their Hybridization". Copeia 1980 (3): 469–478. doi:10.2307/1444524. 
  4. Poly, William J.; Sabaj, Mark H. (1998). "Lack of Evidence for the Validity of Rhinichthys bowersi (Cyprinidae)". Copeia 1998 (4): 1081–1085. doi:10.2307/1447363. ISSN 0045-8511. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1447363. 
  5. Tan, Milton; Armbruster, Jonathan W. (2018-09-13). "Phylogenetic classification of extant genera of fishes of the order Cypriniformes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi)" (in en). Zootaxa 4476 (1): 6–39. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4476.1.4. ISSN 1175-5334. https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4476.1.4. 
  6. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Genera in the family Leuciscidae". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=genus&family=Leuciscidae. 

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