Western speckled dace
The Western speckled dace is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. This species is found in the Klamath, Warner and Sacramento drainage systems in California and Oregon. This species was first formally described in 1898 by the American ichthyologists Barton Warren Evermann and Seth Eugene Meek with the type locality given as the mouth of a creek in Pelican Bay, Klamath Lake, Klamath County, Oregon. This taxon was previously regarded as a subspecies of the speckled dace but in 2023 Peter B. Moyle, Nicholas Buckmaster and Yingxin Su confirmed it was a valid species with three subspecies, the Klamath Western speckled dace, Sacramento speckled dace and Warner speckled dace.