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title: "Speckled Dace"
description: "Rhinichthys osculus — Vissen. The speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus), also known as the spotted dace and the carpita pinta, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/speckled-dace
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Speckled Dace

> Rhinichthys osculus — Vissen. The speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus), also known as the spotted dace and the carpita pinta, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows.

- Scientific name: *Rhinichthys osculus*
- Category: `fish` (Vissen)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Meren en rivieren)
- iNaturalist observations: 1530
- Wikidata: [Q2408090](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2408090)
- iNaturalist taxon: [111659](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/111659)

## Names

- en: Speckled Dace
- de: Gesprenkelter Weißfisch
- es: Carpita pinta
- fr: Naseux moucheté

## Countries with the most observations

US (1210), CA (16)

## Summary

The speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus), also known as the spotted dace and the carpita pinta, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. It is found in temperate freshwater in North America, from Sonora, Mexico, to British Columbia, Canada.

Speckled dace have a variety of unofficial names. Some of these include western dace, pacific dace, spring dace, and dusky dace. Dace is derived from the Middle English word that means dart.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckled_dace

## Photo

![Speckled Dace](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/speckled-dace/medium.jpg)

Photo: Braden J. Judson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/136970245

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/speckled-dace?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).