Linichthys

Monotypic genusof fish From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linichthys

Linichthys is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish be;onging to the family Cyprinidae, the family which includes the carps, barbs, minnows and related fishes. The only species in the gneus is Linichthys lateiceps, a species found only in the upper and middle Pearl River basin and the upper Yangtze basin in the city of Guiyang in Guizhou Province in Southern China This species reaches a length of 11.0 cm (4.3 in).[1]

Quick Facts Scientific classification, Binomial name ...
Linichthys
Thumb
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Labeoninae
Genus: Linichthys
E. Zhang & F. Fang, 2005
Species:
L. laticeps
Binomial name
Linichthys laticeps
(R. D. Lin & C. G. Zhang, 1986)
Synonyms

Barbodes laticeps Lin & Zhang, 1986

Close

Etymology

The genus is named after Lin Ren-Duan. A Chinese ichthyologist.[2]


References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.