Biology:Siphateles

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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. 1.0 1.1 Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke; R. van der Laan, eds (1 December 2017). "Catalog of Fishes". California Academy of Sciences. https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?genid=4159. Retrieved 9 December 2017. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Siphateles in FishBase. June 2017 version.
  3. 3.0 3.1 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. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1304094. 
  5. Kelly, Thomas S. (2010). "A NEW CHUB (ACTINOPTERYGII, CYPRINIFORMES, CYPRINIDAE) FROM THE MIDDLE MIOCENE (EARLY CLARENDONIAN) ALDRICH STATION FORMATION, LYON COUNTY, NEVADA". Paludicola 7 (4): 137–157. https://rivp-paludicola.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/7-4-kelly-2010a.pdf. 

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