Triplophysa alticeps

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Triplophysa alticeps
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Triplophysa
Subgenus: Qinghaichthys
Species:
T. alticeps
Binomial name
Triplophysa alticeps
(Herzenstein, 1888)
Synonyms

Nemachilus alticepsHerzenstein, 1888
Qinghaichthys alticeps(Herzenstein, 1888)

Triplophysa alticeps is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Triplophysa . These stone loaches are occasionally placed in the genus Qinghaichthys by some authorities. [1] It is endemic to Qinghaihu Lake in Qinghai Province, China. [2]

Footnotes

  1. Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
  2. Rainer Froese; Daniel Pauly, eds. (2017). "Triplophysa alticeps (Herzenstein, 1888)". Fishbase . Retrieved 7 January 2018.