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| Western speckled dace | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Genus: | Rhinichthys |
| Species: | R. klamathensis
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| Rhinichthys klamathensis | |
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The Western speckled dace (Rhinichthys klamathensis) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. This species is found in the Klamath, Warner and Sacramento drainage systems in California and Oregon.[1] This species was first formally described in 1898 by the American ichthyologists Barton Warren Evermann and Seth Eugene Meek with the type locality given as the mouth of a creek in Pelican Bay, Upper Klamath Lake, Klamath County, Oregon.[1] This taxon was previously regarded as a subspecies of the speckled dace (R. osculus) but in 2023 Peter B. Moyle, Nicholas Buckmaster and Yingxin Su confirmed it was a valid species with three subspecies, the Klamath Western speckled dace (R. k. klamathensis), Sacramento speckled dace (R. k. achomawi) and Warner speckled dace (R. k. goyatoka).[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Rhinichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
- ^ Peter B. Moyle; Nicholas Buckmaster & Yingxin Su (2023). "Taxonomy of the Speckled Dace Species Complex (Cypriniformes: Leuciscidae, Rhinichthys) in California, USA". Zootaxa. 5249 (5): 501539. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5249.5.1.