Crossocheilus
| Crossocheilus | |
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| Siamese algae eater (Crossocheilus oblongus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Labeoninae |
| Genus: | Crossocheilus Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1823 |
| Type species | |
| Crossocheilus oblongus Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1823
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Crossocheilus, also known as the fringe barbs, flying foxes, or "algae eaters", is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is distributed in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in Asia.[1] These fish occur in several types of habitat, often fast-flowing rivers with rocky bottoms.[2]
Species
[edit]There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus:[1][3]
- Crossocheilus atrilimes Kottelat, 2000
- Crossocheilus burmanicus Hora, 1936
- Crossocheilus cobitis (Bleeker, 1854)
- Crossocheilus diplochilus (Heckel, 1838)
- Crossocheilus elegans Kottelat & H. H. Tan, 2011 [2]
- Crossocheilus gnathopogon M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1916
- Crossocheilus klatti (Kosswig, 1950)
- Crossocheilus langei Bleeker, 1860
- Crossocheilus microstoma Ciccotto & Page, 2017
- Crossocheilus nigriloba Popta, 1904
- Crossocheilus oblongus Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1823
- Crossocheilus obscurus H. H. Tan & Kottelat, 2009 [4]
- Crossocheilus periyarensis Menon & Jacob, 1996
- Crossocheilus pseudobagroides (Duncker, 1904)
- Crossocheilus reticulatus (Fowler, 1934)
- Crossocheilus tchangi (Fowler, 1935)
References
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- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Crossocheilus". FishBase. January 2016 version.
- ^ a b Kottelat, M. & Tan, H.H. (2011): Crossocheilus elegans, a new species of fish from northern Borneo (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Archived 2012-02-08 at the Wayback Machine Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 59 (2): 195-199.
- ^ Bailly, Nicolas (2022). "Crossocheilus Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1823". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
- ^ Tan, H.H. & Kottelat, M. (2009): The fishes of the Batang Hari drainage, Sumatra, with description of six new species. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 20 (1): 13-69.
Further reading
[edit]Ciccotto, et al. 2017. (2017). "Revision of the Cyprinid Genus Crossocheilus (Tribe Labeonini) with Description of a New Species" (PDF). Copeia. 105 (2): 269–292. doi:10.1643/CI-16-538. JSTOR 26872434. S2CID 90056241.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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