Thick lipped chub

The thick lipped chub (Squalius cephaloides) is a species of cyprinid fish known only from the Armutlu Peninsula in Turkey.[2]

Thick lipped chub
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Genus: Squalius
Species:
S. cephaloides
Binomial name
Squalius cephaloides
(Battalgil, 1942)
Synonyms

Leuciscus cephaloides Battalgil, 1942

Not to be confused with the thicklip chub (Cyprinella labrosa), native to the Carolinas in the United States.

References
  1. NatureServe (2013). "Squalius cephaloides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Squalius cephaloides" in FishBase. February 2013 version.


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