Folifer brevifilis

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Folifer brevifilis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Folifer
H. W. Wu, 1977
Species:
F. brevifilis
Binomial name
Folifer brevifilis
Synonyms
  • Barbus brevifilisPeters, 1881
  • Labeobarbus brevifilis(Peters, 1881)
  • Tor brevifilis(Peters, 1881)
  • Barbus bonvaloti Vaillant, 1893
  • Barbus szechwanensisTchang, 1931
  • Barbus longirostrumKimura, 1934

Folifer brevifilis is a species of cyprinid fish found in China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar in eastern Asia. [1]

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References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Folifer brevifilis" in FishBase . August 2011 version.