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GBIF·2362211speciesAnimalia13,668 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderCypriniformes
  4. ›familyCyprinidae
  5. ›genusNotropis
Notropis volucellus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

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Notropis volucellus (Cope, 1865)

Also calledméné pâle (fra)

First described in: Cope, Edward D. 1865. Partial catalogue of the cold-blooded Vertebrata of Michigan. Part I. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 16: 276-285.

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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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2362211.