Sinibrama

Sinibrama
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Cultrinae
Genus:	Sinibrama H. W. Wu, 1939
Type species
Chanodichthys wui Lin 1932

Sinibrama is a small genus of cyprinid fishes, the five currently recognized species distributed in south China, Taiwan, Laos, and Vietnam. These are silvery fishes with deep, laterally compressed bodies, large eyes, and terminal mouths. They tend to grow no larger than 20 cm in standard length.

The taxonomy of the group is frequently disputed, as all forms are very similar with more or less overlapping morphometric data.

Species

The genus contains these species:

• Sinibrama affinis (Vaillant, 1892)
• Sinibrama longianalis Z. G. Xie, C. X. Xie & E. Zhang, 2003
• Sinibrama macrops (Günther, 1868)
• Sinibrama melrosei (Nichols & C. H. Pope, 1927)
• Sinibrama taeniatus (Nichols, 1941)
• Sinibrama wui (Rendahl (de), 1932)

References

• Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Sinibrama in FishBase. October 2011 version.