Leopard dace

Leopard dace
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
Subfamily:	Pogonichthyinae
Genus:	Rhinichthys
Species:	R. falcatus
Binomial name
	Rhinichthys falcatus; (C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1893)[2]
Synonyms
	Agosia falcata Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893; Apocope falcata (Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893); Agosia shuswap (Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893);

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.

References

NatureServe (2016). "Rhinichthys falcatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Rhinichthys falcatus" in FishBase. April 2006 version.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.