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GBIF·2412466speciesAnimalia24 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderAtheriniformes
  4. ›familyAtherinopsidae
  5. ›genusChirostoma
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IUCN CR · Critically endangered

Alberca Silverside

Chirostoma bartoni Jordan & Evermann, 1896

Also calledcharal de La Caldera (spa) · menidie Bartonova (ces)

First described in: Jordan, D. S. ; Evermann, B. W. (1896). The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part I. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> No. 47: i-lx + 1-1240.

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 bartoni in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2412466.