Mountain chub

The mountain chub (Algansea monticola) is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae, endemic to the Huaynamota (part of the Grande de Santiago River basin), Juchipila (upper Lerma River basin) and Bolaños rivers (forming a link between Huaynamota and Juchipila) in west-central Mexico.[1][3]

Mountain chub
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Clade: Pogonichthyinae
Genus: Algansea
Species:
A. monticola
Binomial name
Algansea monticola
C. D. Barbour & Contreras-Balderas, 1968[1]
Subspecies
  • Algansea monticola archidion Barbour & Miller, 1994
  • Algansea monticola monticola Barbour & Contreras-Balderas, 1968[2]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Algansea monticola" in FishBase. October 2015 version.
  2. "Mountain Chub Algansea monticola Barbour & Contreras-Balderas, 1968". Biolib.cz. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  3. Barbour, C.D.; R.R. Miller (1994). "Diversification in the Mexican Cyprinid Fish Algansea monticola (Pisces: Cyprinidae), with Description of a New Subspecies". Copeia. 1994 (3): 662–676. doi:10.2307/1447182. JSTOR 1447182.


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