Moxostoma macrolepidotum

Moxostoma macrolepidotum

Taxonavigation: Catostomoidei

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 Subordo:Catostomoidei

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

Name

Moxostoma macrolepidotum (Lesueur, 1817)

• Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown.

Type locality: Delaware River, New Jersey or Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Etymology: macro- (= long); lepida (= scale), probably referring to how dark scale bases make scales appear larger than they are. (From The ETYFish project)

Synonyms

• Catostomus macrolepidotus Lesueur, 1817
• Catostomus aureolus Lesueur, 1817
• Catastomus lesueurii Richardson, 1823
• Cyprinus (Catostomus) sueurii Richardson, 1837
  • Cyprinus sueurii Richardson, 1837
• Catostomus oneida DeKay, 1842
• Ptychostomus haydeni Girard, 1856
• Ptychostomus conus Cope, 1870
• Ptychostomus coregonus Cope, 1870
• Ptychostomus crassilabris Cope, 1870
• Ptychostomus lachrymalis Cope, 1870

Vernacular names

English: Shorthead Redhorse

References

• 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 99: 249–263. DOI: 10.1007/s10641-016-0471-3Reference page. 
• Lesueur, C.A. 1817. A new genus of fishes, of the order Abdominales, proposed, under the name of Catostomus; and the characters of this genus, with those of its species, indicated. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1(1), 5/6: 88–96 (6 pls.), 102–111 (3 pls.) BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Moxostoma macrolepidotum in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Moxostoma macrolepidotum in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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