''Carassioides'' is a genus of
cyprinid
Cyprinidae is a Family (biology), family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family, including the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives the barb (fish), barbs and barbel (fish), barbels, among others. Cyprinidae is the ...
fish that occurs in
East
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Etymology
As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that ea ...
and
Southeast Asia
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.
Species
''Carassioides'' contains the following species:
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Carassioides acuminatus
''Carassioides acuminatus'' or black fish is a species of cyprinid fish in the subfamily Cyprininae. It is found in central and northern Vietnam and the Pearl River and Hainan in China. It may have been introduced into Laos. It occurs in slow fl ...
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( J. Richardson, 1846)
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Carassioides phongnhaensis
''Carassioides phongnhaensis'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Carassioides''. It is found in Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asi ...
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V. H. Nguyễn, 2003
References
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