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Deltistes

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Deltistes
Temporal range: Pliocene–Recent
Delistes luxatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Catostomidae
Tribe: Catostomini
Genus: Deltistes
Seale, 1896
Type species
Chasmistes luxatus
Cope, 1879
Species

Deltistes is a genus of North American ray-finned fish in the family Catostomidae. It contains the modern D. luxatus[1] found in California and Oregon, and the extinct D. owyhee Miller, 1967 and D. ellipticus Miller, 1967 both from the Glenns Ferry Formation of Idaho.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Deltistes". FishBase. March 2024 version.
  2. ^ Miller R. & Smith G. 1967 "New fossil fishes from Plio-Pleistocene Lake Idaho" Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan 654

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