Tampichthys
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Tampichthys is a genus of cyprinid
fish endemic to Mexico
. There are currently six described species in 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 endemic to Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
. There are currently six described species in this genus.
Species
- Tampichthys catostomops (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...
& R. R. MillerRobert Rush MillerRobert Rush Miller "was an important figure in American ichthyology and conservation from 1940 to the 1990s."...
, 1977) (Pánuco minnow) - Tampichthys dichromusTampichthys dichromusTampichthys dichromus, the Bicolor minnow, is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Mexico....
(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...
& R. R. MillerRobert Rush MillerRobert Rush Miller "was an important figure in American ichthyology and conservation from 1940 to the 1990s."...
, 1977) (Bicolor minnow) - Tampichthys erimyzonops (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...
& R. R. MillerRobert Rush MillerRobert Rush Miller "was an important figure in American ichthyology and conservation from 1940 to the 1990s."...
, 1974) (Chubsucker minnow) - Tampichthys ipni (Álvarez & Navarro, 1953) (Lantern minnow)
- Tampichthys mandibularis (Contreras-Balderas & Verduzco-Martínez, 1977) (Flatjaw minnow)
- Tampichthys rasconis (D. S. JordanDavid Starr JordanDavid Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.-Early life and education:...
& SnyderJohn Otterbein SnyderJohn Otterbein Snyder was an American zoologist.As a student he met David Starr Jordan who inspired him to enter zoology. He eventually became a zoology instructor at Stanford University and served there from 1899 until 1943. He went on several major collecting expeditions aboard the USS Albatross...
, 1899) (Blackstripe minnow)