Campostoma
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Campostoma, the stonerollers, is a genus of cyprinid
fish found in North America
. There are currently five species recognized for this genus.
Cyprinid
The family Cyprinidae, from the Ancient Greek kyprînos , consists of the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives . Commonly called the carp family or the minnow family, its members are also known as cyprinids...
fish found in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
. There are currently five species recognized for this genus.
Species
- Campostoma anomalumCampostoma anomalum-Introduction:This is a description of a monitoring plan that has been laid out for a commonly known species Campostoma anomalum or Central Stoneroller...
(Rafinesque, 1820) (Central stoneroller) - Campostoma oligolepisCampostoma oligolepisCampostoma oligolepis, commonly known as the largescale stoneroller, is a fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is one of the 324 fish species found in Tennessee.Introduction...
Carl HubbsCarl Leavitt Hubbs-Youth:He was born in Williams, Arizona. He was the son of Charles Leavitt and Elizabeth Hubbs. His father had a wide variety of jobs . The family moved several times before settling in San Diego where he got his first taste of natural history...
& Greene, 1935 (Largescale stoneroller) - Campostoma ornatumCampostoma ornatumThe Mexican stoneroller is a small fish of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. It belongs to family Cyprinidae...
GirardCharles Frédéric GirardCharles Frédéric Girard was a French biologist specializing in ichthyology and herpetology.Born in Mulhouse, France, he studied at the College of Neuchâtel, Switzerland as a student of Louis Agassiz. In 1847, he accompanied Agassiz as his assistant to Harvard...
, 1856 (Mexican stoneroller) - Campostoma pauciradii Burr & CashnerRobert CashnerRobert C. Cashner is an American ichthyologist and retired academic administrator.He was the first to describe the Stippled studfish ....
, 1983 (Bluefin stoneroller) - Campostoma pullumCampostoma pullumCampostoma anomalum pullum is a subspecies of Campostoma anomalum. It is one of the 324 fish species found in Tennessee.-External links:FishBase:...
(AgassizLouis AgassizJean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel...
, 1854)