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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderAtheriniformes
  4. ›familyAtherinopsidae
  5. ›genusChirostoma
Chirostoma chapalae
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IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Smallmouth Silverside

Chirostoma chapalae Jordan & Snyder, 1899

Also calledcharal de Chapala (spa) · menidie maloústá (ces)

First described in: Jordan, D. S.; Snyder, J. O. (1899). Notes on a collection of fishes from the rivers of Mexico, with description of twenty new species. <em>Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission.</em> v. 19 [1899]: 115-147.

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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Every page naming Chirostoma chapalae in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2412449.