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  Name Spinedaces
  Regnum Animal ia
  Phylum Chordata
  Classis Actinopterygii
  Ordo Cypriniformes
  Familia Cyprinidae
  Subfamilia Leuciscinae
  Genus '''''Lepidomeda'''''
  Genus Authority Cope , 1874
  Subdivision Ranks Species


''Lepidomeda'', commonly known as the '''spinedaces''', is a genus of Cyprinid fish found in western North America . Of the four known species, one is extinct and two are threatened. They appear to be fairly close to the Leatherside Chub and the spikedaces (genus '' Meda ''), but the Phylogeny and indeed the validity of the proposed "plagopterin" Clade is insufficiently resolved (Simons & Mayden 1997).


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  • (1997): Phylogenetic Relationships of the Creek Chubs and the Spine-Fins: an Enigmatic Group of North American Cyprinid Fishes (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae). ''Cladistics'' 13(3): 187-205. (HTML abstract)