Linichthys
Monotypic genusof fish From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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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 |
Etymology
The genus is named after Lin Ren-Duan. A Chinese ichthyologist.[2]
References
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