Nipponocypris
| Nipponocypris Temporal range: Pleistocene-Holocene
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|---|---|
| Nipponocypris temmincki | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Xenocyprididae |
| Genus: | I. S. Chen, J. H. Wu & C. H. Hsu, 2008[1] |
| Type species | |
| Leuciscus temminckii | |
Nipponocypris is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies.[1] 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.[2]
Species
Nipponocypris contains the following species:[3]
- 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)
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Nipponocypris". FishBase. August 2011 version.
- ^ a b c Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Xenocyprididae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
- ^ Shinya, Miyata; Yabumoto, Yoshitaka & Hirano, Hiromichi (2018). "Nipponocypris takayamai, a New Species of Cyprinid Fish from the Nogami Formation (Middle Pleistocene) in the Southern Part of the Kusu Basin, Oita, Japan". Paleontological Research. 22: 218–238. doi:10.2517/2017PR021.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Nipponocypris". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 25 January 2025.