Tanichthys
| Tanichthys | |
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| T. albonubes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Tanichthyidae Mayden & W.J. Chen, 2010[1] |
| Genus: | Tanichthys Lin, 1932 |
| Type species | |
| Tanichthys albonubes Lin, 1932
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Tanichthys is a genus of freshwater cypriniform fish, monotypic in the family Tanichthyidae.[2] Its species are native to rivers and streams in southern China and Vietnam.
Etymology
[edit]The name Tanichthys is a combination of Tan and ichthys. Tan is a Chinese surname, and is taken from the Chinese boy scout leader Tan Kam Fei, who discovered the first specimen. Ichthys means "fish" in Greek.[3]
Species
[edit]Until the turn of the century, the type species, T. albonubes, was the only one known. In 2001, however, Jörg Freyhof and Fabian Herder described a new and very similar species, T. micagemmae, from the Ben Hai River in Vietnam. A third species was described, also in Vietnam, in 2019.
In 2022, deep genetic divergences were found among the various populations of T. albonubes in southern China (despite there being only subtle morphological disparities), resulting in the split of this species into 7.[4] Hence, currently, this genus contains 9 species in total; these are listed below:[5]
- Tanichthys albiventris Li, Bohlen & Liao, 2022
- Tanichthys albonubes Lin, 1932 (white cloud mountain minnow)
- Tanichthys flavianalis Li, Liao & Shen, 2022
- Tanichthys guipingensis Jin, Li & Zhao, 2022
- Tanichthys huidongensis Jin, Li & Zhao, 2022
- Tanichthys kuehnei Bohlen, Dvorák, Thang & Šlechtová, 2019
- Tanichthys luheensis Jin, Li & Zhao, 2022
- Tanichthys micagemmae Freyhof & Herder, 2001 (Vietnamese cardinal minnow)
- Tanichthys shenzhenensis Jin, Li & Zhao, 2022
References
[edit]- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Tanichthyidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf (4 September 2024). "Family TANICHTHYIDAE Mayden & Chen 2010 (Mountain Minnows)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
- ^ Jin, Jinjin; Li, Chao; Zhao, Jun (2022-03-09). "Descriptions of six new species in <scp>White Cloud Mountain minnow Tanichthys albonubes</scp> complex (<scp>Cypriniformes: Tanichthyidae</scp>) in southern China". Journal of Fish Biology. 100 (4): 1062–1087. doi:10.1111/jfb.15012. ISSN 0022-1112. Archived from the original on 2023-02-04.
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Tanichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 17 January 2026.
External links
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Tanichthys". FishBase. October 2011 version.
- "Tanichthys". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 December 2004.
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