Valencia (fish)

Genus of fishes

Valencia

Valencia hispanica
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Cyprinodontiformes
Superfamily:  | Valencioidea
Family:  | Valenciidae
Genus:  | Valencia
G. S. Myers, 1928
Type species
Hydrargyra hispanica

Valenciennes, 1846

Valencia is the only genus in the family Valenciidae.[1] Valencia is a genus of ray-finned fishes. It is sometimes grouped into the family Cyprinodontidae.[2] Members of this genus are restricted to southern Europe.[3]

## Species

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There are currently three recognized species in this genus:[3][4]

* Valencia hispanica (Valenciennes, 1846) (Valencia toothcarp)
* Valencia letourneuxi (Sauvage, 1880) (Corfu toothcarp)
* Valencia robertae Freyhof, Kärst & Geiger, 2014[4]

## References

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1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Valenciidae". FishBase. February 2014 version.
2. ^ Myers, P.; R. Espinosa; C. S. Parr; T. Jones; G. S. Hammond; T. A. Dewey (2008). "Genus Valencia". The Animal Diversity Web. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (online). Retrieved 12 February 2010.
3. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Valencia". FishBase. February 2014 version.
4. ^ a b Freyhof, J., Kärst, H. & Geiger, M. (2014): Valencia robertae, a new killifish from southern Greece (Cyprinodontiformes: Valenciidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (4) [2013]: 289-298.

* "Valencia Myers, 1928". ITIS Report. Retrieved 12 February 2010.

## External links

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* Media related to Valencia (fish) at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Valencia|

* Wikidata: Q136626
* Wikispecies: Valencia
* ADW: Valenciidae
* BOLD: 492772
* CoL: 85Q2
* EPPO: 1VALEG
* Fauna Europaea (new): 19ab60ee-439b-4a5a-8ec2-2e159bde4c7b
* GBIF: 2349564
* iNaturalist: 92760
* ITIS: 165791
* NBN: NHMSYS0001691918
* NCBI: 195854
* Open Tree of Life: 771625
* WoRMS: 298033

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