Chapala chub

The Chapala chub (Yuriria chapalae) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows.^[2] This fish is endemic to the Lake Chapala and its effluent river, the Río Grande de Santiago, in the states of Jalisco and Michoacán^[1] in Mexico.^[3]

Chapala chub
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
Subfamily:	Pogonichthyinae
Genus:	Yuriria
Species:	Y. chapalae
Binomial name
Yuriria chapalae (Jordan & Snyder, 1899)