Paracanthobrama

Paracanthobrama is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gobionidae. the gudgeons.^[1] The only species in the genus is Paracanthobrama guichenoti,^[2] a species which is endemic to China.^[3]

Paracanthobrama
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Suborder:	Cyprinoidei
Family:	Gobionidae
Genus:	Paracanthobrama Bleeker, 1864[1]
Species:	P. guichenoti
Binomial name
Paracanthobrama guichenoti Bleeker, 1864[1]
Synonyms[1][2]
Genus Gladobarbus Fowler, 1930 Species Hemibarbus guichenoti (Bleeker, 1864) Hemibarbus dissimilis Bleeker, 1871 Barbus nigriparipinnis Fowler, 1930 Hemibarbus soochowensis T.-H. Shaw, 1930 Paracanthobrama pingi H.-W. Wu, 1930

Named in honor of Antoine Alphone Guichenot (1809-1876), assistant naturalist at Musée du Jardin des Plantes a Paris.^[4]