''Bangana'' is a genus of fish in the family

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, the carps and minnows. It is distributed across much of southern and eastern

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. Species live mainly in the flowing waters of

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and

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rivers.Liu, K. and W. Zhou. (2009)
''Bangana brevirostris'', a new species of cyprinid fish (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from the Lancang-Jiang (Upper Mekong River) drainage in Yunnan, Southwest China.
''Zootaxa'' 1980, 61-68.

Taxonomy and species

''Bangana'' includes many species formerly classified in the genus ''

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''. A number of species often placed in ''Bangana'' have again been moved to other genera, notably '' Altigena'', '' Gymnostomus'', '' Incisilabeo'', '' Speolabeo'' and '' Decorus'', but to what extent these changes are recognized varies. ''Bangana'' contains the following valid species: * '' Bangana almorae'' ( B. L. Chaudhuri, 1912) * '' Bangana brevirostris'' K. Liu & W. Zhou, 2009 * '' Bangana dero'' (

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, 1822) (kalabans) * '' Bangana devdevi'' (

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, 1936) * '' Bangana diplostoma'' ( Heckel, 1838) * '' Bangana gedrosicus'' ( Zugmayer, 1912) * '' Bangana nukta'' (

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, 1839) (Nukta) ''B. joalius'' (Hamilton, 1822) is a ''

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'' within this genus.

References

Labeoninae Taxa named by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton Cyprinidae genera Cyprinid fish of Asia {{Labeoninae-stub