genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...
belonging to the family
Cyprinidae
Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family and the largest verte ...
, native to the
Western United States
The Western United States (also called the American West, the Far West, and the West) is the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. As American settlement in the U.S. expanded westward, the meaning of the term ''the Wes ...
. They were formerly placed in the genus '' Gila''.
Species
The species include:
*''
Siphateles alvordensis
The Alvord chub (''Siphateles alvordensis'') is a rare cyprinid fish endemic to the Alvord basin in southeastern Oregon and northwestern Nevada, U.S., known only from a few springs, streams and marshes in the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, a ...
'' Carl Leavitt Hubbs, C. L. Hubbs & Robert Rush Miller, R. R. Miller, 1972 (Alvord chub)
* ''Siphateles bicolor'' (Charles Frédéric Girard, Girard, 1856) (Tui chub)
** ''Siphateles bicolor bicolor'' (Charles Frédéric Girard, Girard, 1856) (Tui chub)
** ''Siphateles bicolor isolata'' Carl Leavitt Hubbs, C. L. Hubbs & Robert Rush Miller, R. R. Miller, 1972 (Independence Valley tui chub)
** ''Siphateles bicolor mohavensis'' (John Otterbein Snyder, Snyder, 1918) (Mohave tui chub)
** ''Siphateles bicolor obesa'' (Charles Frédéric Girard, Girard, 1856)
** ''Siphateles bicolor pectinifer'' (John Otterbein Snyder, Snyder, 1917)
** ''Siphateles bicolor snyderi'' Robert Rush Miller, R. R. Miller, 1973 (Owens tui chub)
** ''Siphateles bicolor vaccaceps'' Frederick Taylor Bills, F. T. Bills & Carl Eldon Bond, C. E. Bond, 1980
* ''Siphateles boraxobius'' Jack E. Williams, J. E. Williams & Carl Eldon Bond, C. E. Bond, 1980 (Borax Lake chub)
References
Siphateles,
Chubs (fish)
Ray-finned fish genera
Endemic fauna of the United States
Freshwater fish of the United States
Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
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