Lavinia (fish)

Lavinia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Leuciscinae
Genus:	Lavinia; Girard, 1854
Species
	Lavinia exilicauda S. F. Baird & Girard, 1854; and see text
Synonyms
	Lavinia compressa; Lavinia harengus; Lavinia ardesiaca;

Lavinia is a genus of cyprinid fish consisting of one or two species native to western North America.

While there is little doubt as to the membership of the hitch (L. exilicauda), the position of the closely related California roach is less clear. While FishBase, ITIS, and Taxonomicon all record it as Hesperoleucus symmetricus (and is the treatment taken here), Moyle observes hybrids of the two species are fertile, the genetic relationship is also close, and the older genus Lavinia should take precedence.

The origin of the genus name is the mythological Lavinia,^{[citation needed]} although the rationale is unclear.

References[]

Valid species list of genus Lavinia on FishBase.
"Lavinia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 6 June 2006.
Peter B. Moyle, Inland Fishes of California (University of California Press, 2002), pp. 141
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). Species of Lavinia in FishBase. February 2006 version.

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