''Culter'' is a genus of freshwater

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

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 ...

, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies. The fishes in this genus are found in eastern Asia from

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to Viet Nam. The name is derived from the

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word ''culter'', meaning "knife". ''Culter'' is closely related to ''

Chanodichthys ''Chanodichthys'' is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other ...

'' and some species have been moved between these genera.

Species

''Culter'' has the following species classified within it: * '' Culter alburnus'' Basilewsky, 1855 * '' Culter compressocorpus'' P. L. Yih & C. R. Chu, 1959

References

Xenocyprididae Taxa named by Stepan Ivanovich Basilewsky Ray-finned fish genera {{Cultrinae-stub