Pogonichthys

Pogonichthys

Taxobox
name = "Pogonichthys"


image_caption = Splittail, "Pogonichthys macrolepidotus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Cypriniformes
familia = Cyprinidae
genus = "Pogonichthys"
genus_authority = Girard, 1854
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

The splittails are a genus "Pogonichthys" of cyprinid fish, consisting of two species native to western North America.

The common name is inspired by the distinctive appearance of the tail fin, in which the upper lobe is distinctly larger.

Of the two species, only the splittail "P. macrolepidotus" survives; the Clear Lake splittail "P. ciscoides" became extinct in the mid-1970s.

pecies

* "Pogonichthys ciscoides"
* "Pogonichthys macrolepidotus"

References

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