Crossocheilus

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Crossocheilus
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Siamese algae eater (Crossocheilus oblongus)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Labeoninae
Genus: Crossocheilus
Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1823
Type species
Crossocheilus oblongus
Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1823
Synonyms

Crossocheilus, also known as the fringe barbs, flying foxes, or "algae eaters", is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is distributed in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in Asia. [1] These fish occur in several types of habitat, often fast-flowing rivers with rocky bottoms. [2]

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Two C. oblongus resting on a rock. Crossocheilus Oblongus.JPG
Two C. oblongus resting on a rock.

Species

There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus: [1] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Crossocheilus in FishBase . January 2016 version.
  2. 1 2 Kottelat, M. & Tan, H.H. (2011): Crossocheilus elegans, a new species of fish from northern Borneo (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Archived 2012-02-08 at the Wayback Machine Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 59 (2): 195-199.
  3. Bailly, Nicolas (2022). "Crossocheilus Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1823". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  4. Tan, H.H. & Kottelat, M. (2009): The fishes of the Batang Hari drainage, Sumatra, with description of six new species. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 20 (1): 13-69.

Further reading

Ciccotto, et al. 2017. (2017). "Revision of the Cyprinid Genus Crossocheilus (Tribe Labeonini) with Description of a New Species" (PDF). Copeia. 105 (2): 269–292. doi:10.1643/CI-16-538. JSTOR   26872434. S2CID   90056241.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)