Allotoca
Sign in to saveAllotoca is a genus of splitfins that are endemic to west-central and southwest Mexico, where restricted to the Lerna–Chapala–Grande de Santiago, Ameca and Balsas river basins, as well as various endorheic lake basins in Michoacán and Jalisco (Pátzcuaro, Zirahuén, Cuitzeo, Magdalena and others). All Allotoca species are seriously threatened.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderCyprinodontiformes
- FamilyGoodeidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 43
- Family
- Goodeidae
- Collections
- UMMZ, USNM, TU, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - FISH DIVISION, COLUMBUS, OH (OSUM)
- Recorded in
- Mexico
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- Parent taxon
- Goodeinae
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- Allotoca dugesii The fishes of North and Middle America (Pl. CVIII) (7983356197).jpg
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Allotoca is a genus of splitfins that are endemic to west-central and southwest Mexico, where restricted to the Lerna–Chapala–Grande de Santiago, Ameca and Balsas river basins, as well as various endorheic lake basins in Michoacán and Jalisco (Pátzcuaro, Zirahuén, Cuitzeo, Magdalena and others). All Allotoca species are seriously threatened.
The largest Allotoca is up to long, but most species only reach between half and three-quarter that size.
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