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Family
Catostomidae

Genus
Cycleptus

Last updated on:
05-Jul-2013

Cycleptus elongatus (Lesueur, 1817)

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Original description as Catostomus elongatus:

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Lesueur, Charles-Alexander. 1817. "A new genus of fishes, of the order Abdominales, proposed, under the name of Catostomus; and the characters of this genus, with those of its species, indicated". Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 1(5, 6):88-96, 102-111 (ffm00372)

Synonyms (1):

Cycleptus nigrescens Rafinesque, 1819, with type locality at Ohio and Missouri rivers, U.S.A. Determiner: Gilbert, 1998

Conservation: Cycleptus elongatus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2019).