Stumptooth minnow
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| Stumptooth minnow | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Pogonichthyinae |
| Genus: | †Stypodon Garman, 1881 |
| Species: | †S. signifer
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| Binomial name | |
| †Stypodon signifer Garman, 1881
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The stumptooth minnow (Stypodon signifer) is an extinct species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows.[2] This species was endemic to Mexico, being found only in the Valle de Parras in the Chihuahuan Desert in Coahuila state. It is thought to have become extinct around 1930.[1]
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