Tanichthys

Tanichthys is a genus of freshwater fish, it is the only genus in the family Tanichthyidae in the order Cypriniformes.^[2] They are native to rivers and streams in China and Vietnam. Until recently, the type species, T. albonubes, was the only one known. In 2001, however, Jörg Freyhof and Fabian Herder described a new and very similar species, T. micagemmae, from the Ben Hai River in Vietnam and Nguyễn Văn Hảo and Ngô Sy Van described a third species from Vietnam.

Tanichthys
White Cloud Mountain minnow (T. albonubes)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Tanichthyidae Mayden & W.J. Chen, 2010[1]
Genus:	Tanichthys S. Y. Lin, 1932
Type species
Tanichthys albonubes S.Y. Lin, 1932
Species
See text

The name Tanichthys comes from the name of the Chinese Boy Scout leader, Tan Kam Fei, who discovered the first specimen.^[3]

Species

Tanichthys contains the following species:^[4]

• Tanichthys albiventris F. Li, Bohlen & T. Y, Liao, 2022
• Tanichthys albonubes S. Y. Lin, 1932 (White cloud mountain minnow)
• Tanichthys flavianalis F. Li, T. Y. Liao & Z. X. Shen, 2022
• Tanichthys guipingensis J. J. Jin, C. Li & J. Zhao, 2022
• Tanichthys huidongensis J. J. Jin, C. Li & J. Zhao, 2022
• Tanichthys kuehnei Bohlen, Dvorák, Thang & Šlechtová, 2019
• Tanichthys luheensis J. J. Jin, C. Li & J. Zhao, 2022
• Tanichthys micagemmae Freyhof & Herder, 2001
• Tanichthys shenzhenensis J. J. Jin, C. Li & J. Zhao, 2022
• Tanichthys thacbaensis V. H. Nguyễn & S. V. Ngô, 2001