Deltistes is a genus of North American ray-finned fish in the family Catostomidae. It contains the modern D. luxatus[1] found in California and Oregon, and the extinct D. owyhee Miller, 1967 and D. ellipticus Miller, 1967 both from the Glenns Ferry Formation of Idaho.[2]
| Deltistes Temporal range:
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| Delistes luxatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Catostomidae |
| Tribe: | Catostomini |
| Genus: | Deltistes Seale, 1896 |
| Type species | |
| Chasmistes luxatus Cope, 1879
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References
edit- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Deltistes". FishBase. March 2024 version.
- ^ Miller R. & Smith G. 1967 "New fossil fishes from Plio-Pleistocene Lake Idaho" Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan 654