Zuojiangia

Zuojiangiais a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae, the family which also includes the carps, barbs, minnows and related fishes.^[2] The only species in this genus is Zuojiangia jingxiensis which was first formally described in 2018 with its type locality given as the outlet of a karst cave and a small connected unnamed stream in the drainage of the Zuojiang River, a tributary of the Pearl River at the Biaoliang Village in Lutong Town in Jingxi County, Guangxi Province. The type locality was destroyed in 2013.^[3]

Zuojiangia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Genus:	Zuojiangia L. P. Zheng, Y. He, J. X. Yang & L. B. Wu, 2018[1]
Species:	Z. jingxiensis
Binomial name
Zuojiangia jingxiensis L. P. Zheng, Y. He, J. X. Yang & L. B. Wu, 2018[2]