The splittails are a genus ''Pogonichthys'' of

cyprinid Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family and the largest ve ...

fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% ...

, consisting of two species native to western North America. The common name is inspired by the distinctive appearance of the tail fin, in which the upper lobe is distinctly larger. Of the two species, only the Sacramento splittail survives; the Clear Lake splittail became extinct in the mid-1970s.

Species

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'' Pogonichthys ciscoides'' Hopkirk, 1974 (Clear Lake splittail) * '' Pogonichthys macrolepidotus'' ( Ayres, 1854) (Sacramento splittail)

References

* Fish of North America Fish of the United States Taxa named by Spencer Fullerton Baird Fish genera with one living species {{Leuciscinae-stub