Nipponocypris

Nipponocypris is a genus of cyprinid fish containing three extant species, one endemic to Japan, one to South Korea while the third occurs in Japan, Korea and China. A fourth, extinct species is known from Middle Pleistocene-aged freshwater strata from the Kusu Basin in Japan.[1]

Nipponocypris
Temporal range: Pleistocene-Holocene
Nipponocypris temmincki
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Nipponocypris
I. S. Chen, J. H. Wu & C. H. Hsu, 2008
Type species
Leuciscus temminckii
Temminck & Schlegel, 1846

Species

References

  1. Miyata, Shinya, Yoshitaka Yabumoto, and Hiromichi Hirano. "Nipponocypris takayamai, a new species of cyprinid fish from the Nogami Formation (Middle Pleistocene) in the southern part of the Kusu Basin, Oita, Japan." Paleontological Research 22.3 (2018): 218-239.


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