Las Vegas dace

Las Vegas dace
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Rhinichthys
Species: R. deaconi
Binomial name
Rhinichthys deaconi
R. R. Miller, 1984

The Las Vegas dace (Rhinichthys deaconi) is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family. It was found only in the Las Vegas Valley in the United States. It was declared extinct in 1986 by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

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