Biology:Cyprinus megalophthalmus

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Cyprinus megalophthalmus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Cyprininae
Genus: Cyprinus
Species:
C. megalophthalmus
Binomial name
Cyprinus megalophthalmus
H. W. Wu, G. R. Yang, P. Q. Yue & H. J. Huang, 1963

Cyprinus megalophthalmus is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Cyprinus that is endemic to Lake Erhai in China.[1][2] There have been no records since the 1980s and it is possibly extinct.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Wang, Wang, Li, Du, Yang, Lassoie, and Hassan (2013). Six decades of changes in vascular hydrophyte and fish species in three plateau lakes in Yunnan, China. Biodivers. Conserv. 22: 3197–3221. doi: 10.1007/s10531-013-0579-0
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Cyprinus megalophthalmus" in FishBase. April 2006 version.

Wikidata ☰ Q3751903 entry