Tanakia shimazui
| Tanakia shimazui | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Acheilognathinae |
| Genus: | Tanakia |
| Species: | T. shimazui
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| Binomial name | |
| Tanakia shimazui S. Tanaka, 1908
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Tanakia shimazui is a species of fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to Japan.[1]
Etymology
[edit]Named in honor of “Mr. Shimazu” (no forename given), a naturalist in Tokyo, who collected type.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Tanakia shimazui". FishBase. April 2017 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families ACHEILOGNATHIDAE, GOBIONIDAE and TANICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
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