Biology:Tanakia
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Short description: Genus of fishes
| Tanakia | |
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| Tanakia lanceolata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Acheilognathinae |
| Genus: | Tanakia D. S. Jordan & W. F. Thompson, 1914 |
| Type species | |
| Tanakia limbata Temminck & Schlegel, 1846
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Tanakia is a genus of cyprinid fish, consisting of five species that occurs in Eastern Asia. The type species is the Tanakia limbata.
Genus is named for Shigeho Tanaka (1878-1974), “accomplished” ichthyologist of the Imperial University of Tokyo, who described Tanakia shimazui in 1908 and Pseudorhodeus tanago in 1909.[1]
Species
There are currently 9 species of this genus:[2][3]
- Tanakia himantegus (Günther, 1868)
- Tanakia koreensis (I. S. Kim & C. H. Kim, 1990)
- Tanakia lanceolata (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
- Tanakia latimarginata (Kim, Jeon & Suk, 2014) [4]
- Tanakia limbata (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Oily bitterling)
- Tanakia shimazui (S. Tanaka (I), 1908)
- Tanakia signifer (L. S. Berg, 1907)
- Tanakia somjinensis (I. S. Kim & C. H. Kim, 1991)
- Tanakia tanago (S. Tanaka, 1909) (Tokyo bitterling)
References
- ↑ "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families ACHEILOGNATHIDAE, GOBIONIDAE and TANICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/cypriniformes14/.
- ↑ "Tanakia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=201932. Retrieved 25 May 2007.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Tanakia in FishBase. October 2011 version.
- ↑ Kim, D.; Jeon, H.B.; Suk, H.Y. (2014). "Tanakia latimarginata, a new species of bitterling from the Nakdong River, South Korea (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)" (PDF). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 25 (1): 59–68. http://www.pfeil-verlag.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ief25_1_05.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q721629 entry
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