Tanichthys

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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

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

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]

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
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  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
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