Biology:Chinese minnow

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Chinese minnow
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Leuciscidae
Subfamily: Pseudaspininae
Genus: Rhynchocypris
Species:
R. oxycephalus
Binomial name
Rhynchocypris oxycephalus
(Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874)
Synonyms
  • Lagowskiella czekanowskii suifunensis
  • Leuciscus costatus
  • Moroco oxycephalus
  • Phoxinus czekanowskii suifunensis
  • Phoxinus lagowskii oxycephalus
  • Phoxinus oxycephalus
  • Phoxinus percnurus suifunensis
  • Pseudophoxinus oxycephalus[1]

The Chinese minnow (Rhynchocypris oxycephalus) is an Asian species of small freshwater cyprinid fish.[2] It is found from the Amur rivers in the north to the Yangtze in China in the south.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Bogutskaya, N. (2022). "Rhynchocypris oxycephalus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T159709916A159709987. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T159709916A159709987.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/159709916/159709987. Retrieved 3 April 2023. 
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Rhynchocypris oxycephalus" in FishBase. November 2014 version.

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