Osteochilus chini

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Osteochilus chini
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Labeoninae
Genus: Osteochilus
Species:
O. chini
Binomial name
Osteochilus chini
Karnasuta, 1993
Synonyms

Osteochilus kahajanensis chini

Osteochilus chini is a species of cyprinid fish in the Labeoninae endemic to Sabah. [1]

Osteochilus chini, which means bony lip, feed on algae and are common in slow water habitats. [2]

Named in honor of Datuk (honorific title) Chin Phui-Kong (1923-ca. 2016), Malaysian ichthyologist, who helped collect type in 1956. [3]


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References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Osteochilus chini" in FishBase . November 2014 version.
  2. https://fishbase.org/summary/Osteochilus-chini.html.Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily LABEONINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 17 February 2021.