Chinese minnow

The Chinese minnow (Rhynchocypris oxycephalus) is an Asian species of small freshwater cyprinid fish.[1] It is found from the Amur rivers in the north to the Yangtze in China in the south.

Chinese minnow
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Leuciscidae
Subfamily: Pseudaspininae
Genus: Rhynchocypris
Species:
R. oxycephalus
Binomial name
Rhynchocypris oxycephalus
(Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874)
Synonyms
  • Lagowskiella czekanowskii suifunensis
  • Leuciscus costatus
  • Moroco oxycephalus
  • Phoxinus czekanowskii suifunensis
  • Phoxinus lagowskii oxycephalus
  • Phoxinus oxycephalus
  • Phoxinus percnurus suifunensis
  • Pseudophoxinus oxycephalus

References
  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2014). "Rhynchocypris oxycephalus" in FishBase. November 2014 version.


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