Tanichthys
| Tanichthys | |
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| White Cloud Mountain minnow (T. albonubes) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
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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.
The name Tanichthys comes from the name of the Chinese Boy Scout leader, Tan Kam Fei, who discovered the first specimen.[3]
Species
[edit]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
References
[edit]- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Tanichthyidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf (24 January 2025). "Family GOBIONIDAE Bleeker 1863 (Freshwater Gudgeons)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Tanichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
External links
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Tanichthys". FishBase. October 2011 version.
- "Tanichthys". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 December 2004.
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