Nipponocypris
Sign in to saveNipponocypris is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies. This genus has three extant species from eastern Asia and a fourth, extinct species from Middle Pleistocene-aged freshwater strata from the Kusu Basin in Japan.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderCypriniformes
- FamilyCyprinidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Collections
- ANSP
- Recorded in
- Leshan Prefecture [Formerly Jiading Or Jiazhou]
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Nipponocypris is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies. This genus has three extant species from eastern Asia and a fourth, extinct species from Middle Pleistocene-aged freshwater strata from the Kusu Basin in Japan.
==Species== Nipponocypris contains the following species: Nipponocypris koreanus (I. S. Kim, M. K. Oh & K. Hosoya, 2005) Nipponocypris sieboldii (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) Nipponocypris takayamai Miyata, Yabumoto, and Hirano, 2019 Nipponocypris temminckii (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
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