WoRMS taxon details
Moxostoma Rafinesque, 1820
Lagochila Jordan & Brayton, 1877 · unaccepted
Moxotoma · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Myxostoma Jordan, 1877 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Placopharynx Cope, 1870 · unaccepted
Ptychostomus Agassiz, 1855 · unaccepted
Scartomyzon Fowler, 1913 · unaccepted
Teretulus Rafinesque, 1820 · unaccepted
- Species Moxostoma albidum (Girard, 1856)
- Species Moxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)
- Species Moxostoma ariommum Robins & Raney, 1956
- Species Moxostoma austrinum Bean, 1880
- Species Moxostoma breviceps (Cope, 1870)
- Species Moxostoma carinatum (Cope, 1870)
- Species Moxostoma cervinum (Cope, 1868)
- Species Moxostoma collapsum (Cope, 1870)
- Species Moxostoma congestum (Baird & Girard, 1854)
- Species Moxostoma duquesnei (Lesueur, 1817)
- Species Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)
- Species Moxostoma hubbsi Legendre, 1952
- Species Moxostoma lacerum (Jordan & Brayton, 1877)
- Species Moxostoma lachneri Robins & Raney, 1956
- Species Moxostoma macrolepidotum (Lesueur, 1817)
- Species Moxostoma mascotae Regan, 1907
- Species Moxostoma milleri Robins & Raney, 1957
- Species Moxostoma pappillosum (Cope, 1870)
- Species Moxostoma pisolabrum Trautman & Martin, 1951
- Species Moxostoma poecilurum Jordan, 1877
- Species Moxostoma robustum (Cope, 1870)
- Species Moxostoma rupiscartes Jordan & Jenkins, 1889
- Species Moxostoma valenciennesi Jordan, 1885
- Species Moxostoma atripinne Bailey, 1959 accepted as Thoburnia atripinnis (Bailey, 1959)
- Species Moxostoma aureolum (Lesueur, 1817) accepted as Moxostoma macrolepidotum (Lesueur, 1817)
- Species Moxostoma claviformis Girard, 1856 accepted as Erimyzon claviformis (Girard, 1856)
- Species Moxostoma duquesnii (Lesueur, 1817) accepted as Moxostoma duquesnei (Lesueur, 1817) (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Species Moxostoma hamiltoni (Raney & Lachner, 1946) accepted as Thoburnia hamiltoni Raney & Lachner, 1946
- Species Moxostoma kennerlii Moxostoma Girard, 1856 accepted as Erimyzon sucetta (Lacepède, 1803)
- Species Moxostoma nigricans (Lesueur, 1817) accepted as Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)
- Species Moxostoma rhothoecum (Thoburn, 1896) accepted as Thoburnia rhothoeca (Thoburn, 1896) (senior synonym)
- Species Moxostoma rubreques Hubbs, 1930 accepted as Moxostoma valenciennesi Jordan, 1885 (junior synonym)
- Species Moxostoma tenue Agassiz, 1855 accepted as Erimyzon tenuis (Agassiz, 1855)
- Species Moxostoma moxostoma (uncertain > unassessed)
Not documented
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Moxostoma Rafinesque, 1820. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=269917 on 2025-04-14
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Placopharynx Cope, 1870) Cope, E. D. (1870). A partial synopsis of the fishes of the fresh waters of North Carolina. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> 11 (84): 448-495. [Reissued as second edition in 1877 with notes added.]. [details]
original description (of Lagochila Jordan & Brayton, 1877) Jordan, D. S.; Brayton, A. W. (1877). On Lagochila, a new genus of catostomoid fishes. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 29 (pt 2): 280-283. [Presentation date on volume is 9 Oct. 1877 for p. 280 (includes new taxa), 1 Jan. 1878 for pp. 281-283.]. [details]
original description (of Lagochila Jordan & Brayton, 1877) Jordan, D. S.; Brayton, A. W. (1877). On Lagochila, a new genus of catostomoid fishes. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 29 (pt 2): 280-283. [Presentation date on volume is 9 Oct. 1877 for p. 280 (includes new taxa), 1 Jan. 1878 for pp. 281-283.]. [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Moxostoma)
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To Fishbase (from synonym Lagochila Jordan & Brayton, 1877)
To Fishbase (from synonym Myxostoma Jordan, 1877)
To Genbank (from synonym Scartomyzon Fowler, 1913)
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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Moxostoma)
To Fishbase (from synonym Placopharynx Cope, 1870)
To Fishbase (from synonym Lagochila Jordan & Brayton, 1877)
To Fishbase (from synonym Myxostoma Jordan, 1877)
To Genbank (from synonym Scartomyzon Fowler, 1913)
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