''Culter recurviceps'' is a species of freshwater

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

belonging to the

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Xenocyprididae Xenocyprididae, is a family of freshwater ray-finned fishes commonly called the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies with a natural distribution in Asia. This taxon, sometimes spelt Xenocypridae, was previously regarded to be a subfamily, Xenocypri ...

. This species occurs in the

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and

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in southern China.

References

* recurviceps Taxa named by John Richardson (naturalist) Fish described in 1846 Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Cultrinae-stub