''Coreius'' is a genus 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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Gobionidae Gobioninae is a monophyletic family of Eurasian cyprinoid fishes. This is a species rich clade which, as a subfamily of the Cyprinidae was divided into five tribes: Gobionini, Pseudogobionini, Hemibarbini, Coreiini, and Sarcocheilichthyini. T ...

, the gudgeons. The fishes in this genus are

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to freshwater

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s in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

Species

* '' Coreius cetopsis'' ( Kner, 1867) * '' Coreius guichenoti'' ( Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874) * '' Coreius heterodon'' ( Bleeker, 1864) * '' Coreius septentrionalis'' ( Nichols, 1925)

References

* Gobionidae Fish of Asia Freshwater fish of China Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Taxa named by Edwin Chapin Starks {{Gobioninae-stub