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White River Spinedace

Lepidomeda albivallis

Classification

The White River spinedace (Lepidomeda albivallis) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. This critically endangered fish is found in Nevada, where it is restricted to the White River in the southeastern part of the state. Taxonomy The White River spinedace was first formally described in 1960 by the American ichthyologists Robert Rush Miller and Carl Leavitt Hubbs with its type locality given as the White River, just below the mouth of Ellison Creek, approximately 5 miles (8.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 2