Deltistes

Genus of ray-finned fish in North America

Deltistes

Temporal range: Pliocene–Recent

PreꞒ

Delistes luxatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Cypriniformes
Family:  | Catostomidae
Subfamily:  | Catostominae
Genus:  | Deltistes
Seale, 1896
Type species
Chasmistes luxatus

Cope, 1879[1]

Species

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Deltistes is a genus of North American freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Catostomidae, the suckers.

## Species

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Deltistes contains one extant and two extinct species:[2][3]

* †Deltistes ellipticus R. R, Miller & G. R. Smith, 1967
* Deltistes luxatus Cope, 1879 (Lost River sucker)
* †Deltistes owyhee R. R, Miller & G. R. Smith, 1967

## References

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1. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Catostomidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
2. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Deltistes". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
3. ^ Robert Rush Miller and Gerald R. Smith (1967). "New Fossil Fishes from Plio-Pleistocene Lake Idaho" (PDF). Occasional Papers of the Zoology Museum University of Michigan (654): 1–24.

Taxon identifiers

Deltistes|

* Wikidata: Q16783402
* Wikispecies: Catostomus (Deltistes)
* ADW: Deltistes
* CoL: 42SG
* EoL: 25884
* GBIF: 2358957
* iNaturalist: 87877
* IRMNG: 1282390
* ITIS: 163969
* NCBI: 148441
* Open Tree of Life: 812309
* WoRMS: 268963

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