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GBIF·2359791speciesAnimalia23,653 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderCypriniformes
  4. ›familyCyprinidae
  5. ›genusRhinichthys
Rhinichthys osculus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Speckled Dace

Rhinichthys osculus (Girard, 1856)

Also calledcarpita pinta (spa) · naseux moucheté (fra) · nasuex moucheté (fra)

First described in: Girard, Charles F. 1856. Researches upon the cyprinoid fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of the United States, west of the Mississippi Valley, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8: 165-213.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2359791.