Snyderichthys

Spinedace

Spinedace

Genus of fishes

Lepidomeda is a genus of cyprinid fish, commonly known as the spinedaces, found in western North America. Of the four known species, one is extinct and two are threatened. They appear to be fairly close to the leatherside chub and the spikedaces (genus Meda), but the phylogeny and indeed the validity of the proposed "plagopterin" clade is insufficiently resolved.[1]

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Species

The genus contains these species:[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Andrew M. Simons and Richard L. Mayden (23 April 1997). "Phylogenetic Relationships of the Creek Chubs and the Spine-Fins: an Enigmatic Group of North American Cyprinid Fishes (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae)". Cladistics. 13: 187–205. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.1997.tb00315.x.
  2. [2]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Lepidomeda in FishBase. August 2011 version.


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