Tanakia

Tanakia is a genus of cyprinid fish, consisting of five species that occurs in Eastern Asia. The type species is the Tanakia limbata.

Tanakia
Tanakia lanceolata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Acheilognathinae
Genus: Tanakia
D. S. Jordan & W. F. Thompson, 1914
Type species
Tanakia limbata

Species

There are currently 9 species of this genus:[1][2]

References

  1. "Tanakia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 May 2007.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Tanakia in FishBase. October 2011 version.
  3. Kim, D.; Jeon, H.B.; Suk, H.Y. (2014). "Tanakia latimarginata, a new species of bitterling from the Nakdong River, South Korea (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)" (PDF). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 25 (1): 59–68.


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