Acrossocheilus microstoma

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Acrossocheilus microstoma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Barbinae
Genus: Acrossocheilus
Species:
A. microstoma
Binomial name
Acrossocheilus microstoma
(Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936) [2]
Synonyms
  • Cyclocheilichthys microstomaPellegrin & Chevey, 1936

Acrossocheilus microstoma is a species of cyprinid fish native to freshwater in northwestern Vietnam. [2] It has sometimes included in A. iridescens as a subspecies.

Vietnam Country in Southeast Asia

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula. With an estimated 94.6 million inhabitants as of 2016, it is the 15th most populous country in the world. Vietnam is bordered by China to the north, Laos and Cambodia to the west, part of Thailand to the southwest, and the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia across the South China Sea to the east and southeast. Its capital city has been Hanoi since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in 1976, while its most populous city is Ho Chi Minh City.

Acrossocheilus iridescens is a species of cyprinid fish native to freshwater in southeastern China, Laos and northern Vietnam. It reaches up to 29.7 cm (11.7 in) in length. Juveniles are pale yellowish with 5-6 narrow dark bars, but in adults the dark bars are broad. It has sometimes included A. longipinnis as a subspecies, but recent authorities recognize them as separate species.

Subspecies taxonomic rank subordinate to species

In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species' global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics. A subspecies cannot be recognized independently. A species is either recognized as having no subspecies at all or at least two, including any that are extinct. The term is abbreviated subsp. in botany and bacteriology, or ssp. in zoology. The plural is the same as the singular: subspecies.

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References

  1. ↑ V. Huckstorf; J. Freyhof (2011). "Acrossocheilus microstoma". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. e.T187872A8637741. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T187872A8637741.en.
  2. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Acrossocheilus microstoma" in FishBase. April 2006 version.


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