Tanakia
| Tanakia | |
|---|---|
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| Tanakia lanceolata | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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 | |
Tanakia is a genus of cyprinid fish, consisting of five species that occurs in Eastern Asia. The type species is the Tanakia limbata.
Genus is named for Shigeho Tanaka (1878-1974), “accomplished” ichthyologist of the Imperial University of Tokyo, who described Tanakia shimazui in 1908 and Pseudorhodeus tanago in 1909.[1]
Species[]
There are currently 9 species of this genus:[2][3]
- Tanakia himantegus (Günther, 1868)
- Tanakia koreensis ( & , 1990)
- Tanakia lanceolata (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
- Tanakia latimarginata (, & , 2014) [4]
- Tanakia limbata (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Oily bitterling)
- Tanakia shimazui (S. Tanaka (I), 1908)
- Tanakia signifer (L. S. Berg, 1907)
- Tanakia somjinensis ( & , 1991)
- Tanakia tanago (S. Tanaka, 1909) (Tokyo bitterling)
References[]
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families ACHEILOGNATHIDAE, GOBIONIDAE and TANICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
- ^ "Tanakia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 May 2007.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Tanakia in FishBase. October 2011 version.
- ^ 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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