Rhinichthys falcatus és una espècie de peix cipriniforme de la família dels ciprínids.
Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 12 cm de longitud total.FishBase
Hàbitat És un peix d'aigua dolça i de clima temperat.
Distribució geogràfica Es troba a Nord-amèrica: conques dels rius Fraser i Colúmbia a la Colúmbia Britànica, Washington, Oregon i Idaho.Carl, G.C. i W.A. Clemens, 1948. The fresh-water fishes of British Columbia. B.C. Prov. Mus. Handb. 5:136 p.Carl, G.C., W.A. Clemens i C.C. Lindsey, 1959. The freshwater fishes of British Columbia. B.C. Prov. Mus. Handb. 5: 192 p.Coker, G.A., C.B. Portt i C.K. Minns, 2001. Morphological and ecological characteristics of Canadian freshwater fishes. Can. Manuscr. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. Núm. 2554. 89p.Gee, J.H. i T.C. Northcote, 1963. Comparative ecology of two sympatric species of dace (Rhinichthys) in the Fraser River system, British Columbia. J. Fish. Res. Board Can. 20(1):105-118.Hugg, D.O., 1996. MAPFISH georeferenced mapping database. Freshwater and estuarine fishes of North America. Life Science Software. Dennis O. i Steven Hugg, 1278 Turkey Point Road, Edgewater (Maryland), Estats Units.Jordan, D.S., B.W. Evermann i H.W. Clark, 1930. Check list of the fishes and fishlike vertebrates of North and Middle America. Reprint Appendix X to Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 670 p.McPhail, J.D. i R. Carveth, 1993. Field key to the freshwater fishes of British Columbia. Fish Museum, Department of Zoology, U.B.C., Canadà, 239 p.Richardson, J.S., T.J. Lissimore, M.C. Healey i T.G. Northcote, 2000. Fish communities of the lower Fraser River (Canada) and a 21-year contrast. Environ. Biol. of Fish 59:125-140.Scharpf, C., 2005. Annotated checklist of North America freshwater fishes, including subspecies and undescribed forms. American Currents 31(4):1-44.Scott, W.B. i E.J. Crossman, 1973. Freshwater fishes of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 184:1-966.Wydoski, R.S. i R.R. Whitney, 1979. Inland fishes of Washington. University Washington Press. 220p.
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Peden, A. E. i G. W. Hughes, 1988: Sympatry in four species of Rhinichthys (Pisces), including the first documented occurrences of Rhinichthys umatilla in the Canadian drainages of the Columbia River. Canadian Journal of Zoology v. 66 (núm. 8): 1846-1856. Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea i W.B. Scott, 1980. A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Publ. (12)1-174. Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea i W.B. Scott, 1991. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Pub. (20):183 p.
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