Tanichthys

Tanichthys
White Cloud Mountain minnow (T. albonubes)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Genus:	Tanichthys S. Y. Lin, 1932
Species
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Tanichthys is a genus of freshwater fish in the carp family (family Cyprinidae) of order Cypriniformes. Until recently, the type species, Tanichthys albonubes, was the only one known. In 2001, however, Freyhof and Herder described a new and very similar species, Tanichthys micagemmae, from the Ben Hai River in Vietnam and V. H. Nguyen & S. V. Ngô described a third species from Vietnam.

The name Tanichthys comes from the name of the Chinese Boy Scout leader, Tan, who discovered the first specimen.

Species

• Tanichthys albonubes S. Y. Lin, 1932 (White cloud mountain minnow)
• Tanichthys micagemmae Freyhof & Herder, 2001
• Tanichthys thacbaensis V. H. Nguyen & S. V. Ngô, 2001

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Tanichthys in FishBase. October 2011 version.
• "Tanichthys". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=163763. Retrieved 12 December 2004.