Male at Agujas River
A male of Dionda episcopa showing the breeding tubercles at Agujas River, Rio Grande drainae [Chihuahua]. Photo by Juan Miguel Artigas Azas. (23-Mar-2007). determiner Juan Miguel Artigas Azas

Family
Cyprinidae

Genus
Dionda


Last updated on:
11-Jan-2013

Dionda episcopa Girard, 1856

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Original description as Dionda episcopa:

ZooBank:A119AC26-3AF9-4F4D-9D6D-F2D328094C17.

  • Girard, Charles Frederic. 1856. "Researches upon the cyprinoid fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of the United States, west of the Mississippi Valley, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 8:165-213 (ffm04542)

Conservation: Dionda episcopa is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2011).