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| Grass Valley speckled dace | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Genus: | Rhinichthys |
| Species: | R. osculus |
| Subspecies: | †R. o. reliquus |
| Trinomial name | |
| †Rhinichthys osculus reliquus Hubbs & Miller, 1972 | |
The Grass Valley speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus reliquus) is an extinct subspecies of fish that occurred in a single spring-fed creek in a grassy meadow in eastern Lander County, Nevada. Specimens were collected only once in 1938, and it was then considered common. The species had a distinctive speckled lower lip and silver sided body. The introduction of brook and rainbow trout to the creek is believed to be the reason for their extinction.
References
- ^ Miller, Robert R.; Williams, James D.; Williams, Jack E. (1989). "Extinctions of North American Fishes During the past Century" (PDF). Fisheries. 14:6 (6): 22–38. doi:10.1577/1548-8446(1989)014<0022:EONAFD>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2027.42/141989.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Rhinichthys osculus reliquus | |
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