Nipponocypris

Nipponocypris; Temporal range: Pleistocene-Holocene
	Nipponocypris temmincki
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Genus:	Nipponocypris; I. S. Chen, J. H. Wu & C. H. Hsu, 2008
Type species
	Leuciscus temminckii; Temminck & Schlegel, 1846

Nipponocypris is a genus of cyprinid fish containing three extant species, one endemic to Japan, one to South Korea while the third occurs in Japan, Korea and China. A fourth, extinct species is known from Middle Pleistocene-aged freshwater strata from the Kusu Basin in Japan.^[1]

Species

Nipponocypris koreanus (I. S. Kim, M. K. Oh & K. Hosoya, 2005)
Nipponocypris sieboldii (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
Nipponocypris temminckii (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Nipponocypris". FishBase. August 2011 version.

^ Miyata, Shinya, Yoshitaka Yabumoto, and Hiromichi Hirano. "Nipponocypris takayamai, a new species of cyprinid fish from the Nogami Formation (Middle Pleistocene) in the southern part of the Kusu Basin, Oita, Japan." Paleontological Research 22.3 (2018): 218-239.

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[takayamai-1] Miyata, Shinya, Yoshitaka Yabumoto, and Hiromichi Hirano. "Nipponocypris takayamai, a new species of cyprinid fish from the Nogami Formation (Middle Pleistocene) in the southern part of the Kusu Basin, Oita, Japan." Paleontological Research 22.3 (2018): 218-239.

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