Amur minnow

The Amur minnow or Lagowski's minnow (Rhynchocypris lagowskii) is an Asian species of small freshwater cyprinid fish.[1] It is found from the Lena and Amur rivers in the north to the Yangtze in China in the south, and in Japan.[2]

Amur minnow
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Leuciscidae
Subfamily: Pseudaspininae
Genus: Rhynchocypris
Species:
R. lagowskii
Binomial name
Rhynchocypris lagowskii
(Dybowski, 1869)
Synonyms
  • Lagowskiella lagowskii
  • Moroco yamamotis
  • Phoximus lagowskii
  • Pseudaspis bergi
  • Rhynchocypris variegata

References
  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2014). "Rhynchocypris lagowskii" in FishBase. November 2014 version.
  2. Nishida, Kazuya; Koizumi, Noriyuki; Satoh, Toshiyuki; Senga, Yutaro; Takemura, Takeshi; Watabe, Keiji; Mori, Atsushi (2015). "Influence of the domestic alien fish Rhynchocypris oxycephalus invasion on the distribution of the closely related native fish R. lagowskii in the Tama River Basin, Japan". Landscape and Ecological Engineering. 11: 169–176. doi:10.1007/s11355-014-0257-8. S2CID 10488199.


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