Culter alburnus

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Culter alburnus
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Museum specimen (living are silvery in colour)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Culter
Species:
C. alburnus
Binomial name
Culter alburnus
Basilewsky, 1855
Synonyms

Erythroculter ilishaeformis

Culter alburnus, the topmouth culter, is an East Asian species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the cyprinid genus Culter .

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Geographic distribution and habitat

Culter alburnus occurs in Lake Buir, the Onon and Kherlen drainages in Mongolia, as well as the Amur and Red River drainages in Far East Russia and China, it has also been recorded from Taiwan and Hainan. It can be found in rivers and floodplain lakes which have dense growth of macrophytes. [1]

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