Altigena

Altigena is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish found in the continental part of South East Asia. This genus was resurrected from Bangana by Maurice Kottelat in 2017.^[2]

Altigena
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Labeoninae
Genus:	Altigena Burton, 1934[1]
Type species
Varicorhinus discognathoides Nichols & Pope, 1927[1]
Synonyms[1]
Vinalabeo Nguyen V. H., Nguyen H. D. & Nguyen T. D. P., 2016

The generic name was originally intended as a subgenus of Osteochilus by a Chinese author Lin, and describes the distinguishing feature, alluding to altus, "high" and γένυς (génys), "chin". As Lin did not designate a type species, authorship was granted to Burton, the editor of the Zoological Record.^[3]

Species

Altigena contains the following valid species:^[4]

• Altigena binhluensis (V. H. Nguyen, 2002)
• Altigena daos (V. H. Nguyễn, 2001)
• Altigena discognathoides (Nichols & Pope, 1927)
• Altigena elegans (Kottelat, 1998)
• Altigena laticeps (H. W. Wu & R. D. Lin, 1977)
• Altigena lippa (Fowler, 1936)
• Altigena loos (V. H. Nguyễn, 2001)
• Altigena malihkaia L. P. Zheng, T. Qin & X. Y. Chen, 2018
• Altigena sinkleri (Fowler, 1934)
• Altigena tonkinensis (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1934)
• Altigena wui (C. Y. Zheng & Y. R. Chen, 1983)
• Altigena yunnanensis (H. W. Wu & R. D. Lin, 1977)
• Altigena zhui (C. Y. Zheng & Chen, 1989)