Moxostoma carinatum

Taxonavigation: Cobitoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Superfamilia: Cobitoidea

Familia: Catostomidae
Subfamilia: Catostominae
Genus: Moxostoma
Species: Moxostoma carinatum

Name

Moxostoma carinatum (Cope, 1870)

Type locality: Wabash River at Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, U.S.A.

Etymology: keeled, referring to low ridges on roof of skull. (From The ETYFish project)

English: River Redhorse

Cope, E. D. 1870. Partial synopsis of the fishes of the fresh waters of North Carolina. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 11(84): 448–495. BHL Reference page.

Hatry, C., Thiem, J.D., Hatin, D., Dumont, P., Smokorowski, K.E. & Cooke, S.J. 2016. Fishway approach behaviour and passage of three redhorse species (Moxostoma anisurum, M. carinatum, and M. macrolepidotum) in the Richelieu River, Quebec. Environmental Biology of Fishes, First online: 08 March 2016 DOI: 10.1007/s10641-016-0471-3Reference page.

Moxostoma carinatum in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2022. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

Moxostoma carinatum in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 06/2022.

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