Paracanthobrama

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Paracanthobrama
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Suborder: Cyprinoidei
Family: Gobionidae
Genus: Paracanthobrama
Bleeker, 1864 [1]
Species:
P. guichenoti
Binomial name
Paracanthobrama guichenoti
Bleeker, 1864 [1]
Synonyms [1] [2]

Genus

Species

  • Hemibarbus guichenoti(Bleeker, 1864)
  • Hemibarbus dissimilisBleeker, 1871
  • Barbus nigriparipinnisFowler, 1930
  • Hemibarbus soochowensis T.-H. Shaw, 1930
  • Paracanthobrama pingi H.-W. Wu, 1930

Paracanthobrama is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gobionidae. the gudgeons. [1] The only species in the genus is Paracanthobrama guichenoti, [2] a species which is endemic to China. [3]

Named in honor of Antoine Alphone Guichenot (1809-1876), assistant naturalist at Musée du Jardin des Plantes a Paris. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Gobionidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  2. 1 2 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Paracanthobrama". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  3. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Paracanthobrama guichenoti year-2025". FishBase .
  4. ↑ Christopher Scharpf (24 January 2025). "Family GOBIONIDAE Bleeker 1863 (Freshwater Gudgeons)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
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