Carassioides macropterus

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Carassioides macropterus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Cyprininae
Genus: Carassioides
Species:C. macropterus
Binomial name
Carassioides macropterus
Nguyen, 2001 [1]

Carassioides macropterus is a species of cyprinid fish in the genus Carassioides . [1] It is found in Vietnam.

Carassioides is a genus of cyprinid fish that occurs in East and Southeast Asia. There are currently four recognized species.

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.

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References

  1. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). "Carassioides macropterus" in FishBase. June 2017 version.