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Family
Cyprinidae

Genus
Pimephales

Last updated on:
16-Jan-2013

Pimephales vigilax (Baird & Girard, 1853)

Carpita cabeza de toro.

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Original description as Ceraticthys vigilax:

Baird, Spencer F. & C.F. Girard. 1853. "Descriptions of new species of fishes, collected by captains R. B. Marcy, and Geo. B. M'Clellan, in Arkansas". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 6:390-392 (ffm00109)

Synonyms (1):

Cochlognathus ornatus Baird & Girard, 1854, with type locality at Rio Grande at Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, U.S.A. Determiner: Gilbert, 1998

Conservation: Pimephales vigilax is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.