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Lepidomeda copei (leatherside chub)

Synonyms: Cheonda copei; Gila copei; Snyderichthys copei; Squalius copei

Wikipedia Abstract

The leatherside chub, Snyderichthys copei is a cyprinid fish of western North America. This is a small fish, reported at up to 15 cm (6 in) in length, but more typically half that. The tapered body is covered with very small scales over a skin with a leathery texture, inspiring the common name. Overall color is bluish dorsally and silver ventrally; males are distinguished by patches of orange-red color on the axils of the paired fins, at the base of the anal fin, and along the lower lobe of the tail, as well as golden-red specks at the upper end of the gill opening, and between eye and upper jaw. Unlike most other minnows, both dorsal and anal fins have eight rays.
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Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Colorado Mexico, United States Nearctic Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins    

External References

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Citations

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0