Richardsonius egregius

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Family : Minnows or carps ; Inhabits all types of stream habitats but most common in pools and slow runs, and margins of lakes .

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Gila ardesiaca Cope • Phoxinus clevelandi Eigenmann & Eigenmann • Richardsonius egregius • Squalius galtiae Cope • Tigoma egregia • Tigoma egregia Girard • Tigoma egregia Girard, 1858

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 11-May-1994

Similar Species

Members of the genus Richardsonius

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:

R. balteatus (Richardson´s Minnow) · R. balteatus balteatus (Columbia River Minnow) · R. balteatus hydrophlox (Columbia River Minnow) · R. egregius (Lahontan Redside)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Report presented at the eighty-ninth annual meeting, Clearwater, Fla., Sept. 16-18, 1959. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1960. url p. 17.
• Bulletin / Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1971. url p. 41.
• Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 35, p. 37, p. 43, p. 58, p. 59, p. 602.
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url , p. 101, p. 115, p. 117, p. 118, p. 175, p. 18, p. 19, p. 243, p. 249, p. 25, p. 270, p. 300, p. 314, p. 320, p. 336, p. 386, p. 438, p. 453, p. 94, p. 97.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 158, p. 363, p. 369, p. 559, p. 573, p. 579, p. 580, p. 634, p. 636, p. 640, p. 667, p. 741.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1978 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 23, p. 36.
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url p. 12.
• Phylogenetic studies of North American minnows: with emphasis on the genus Cyprinella (Teleostei, Cypriniformes) / by Richard L. Mayden. 1989 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1989. url p. 9.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 110, p. 217.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 683.
• The Great Basin naturalist. 56 1996 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url , vinyard & yuan, page 157, p. 399, p. 542, p. 592.
• World directory of hydrobiological and fisheries institutions. Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1963. url p. 212.

Notes

Contributors

• American Fisheries Society. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• FishBase
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• McEachran, John (from FishBase).
• NatureServe. 2003. Downloadable animal data sets. NatureServe Central Databases. Accessed February 6, 2005.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:

• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 137504
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-24326
• Fishbase Species ID: 2950
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13763466
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 163529
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AFCJB39020
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 14667

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