The Cultrinae are one of at least 13

subfamilies In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily names with "-oideae", and zool ...

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 A fish (: fish or fishes) is an aquatic animal, aquatic, Anamniotes, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fish fin, fins and craniate, a hard skull, but lacking limb (anatomy), limbs with digit (anatomy), digits. Fish can ...

. It contains ten

genera Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial s ...

Recognized genera

* ''

Anabarilius ''Anabarilius'' is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies, most of them only occurring in the area of China. Many of the species have very restricted geographic range a ...

'' (21 species) * '' Ancherythroculter'' (5 species) * ''

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 ...

'' (5 species) * '' Culter'' (4 species) * '' Cultrichthys'' (

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

) * '' Erythroculter'' (

) * '' Hainania'' (monotypic) * '' Hemiculter'' (8 species) * '' Ischikauia'' (monotypic) * '' Megalobrama'' (5 species) * '' Parabramis'' – white Amur bream (monotypic) * '' Paralaubuca'' (5 species) * '' Pseudohemiculter'' (4 species) * '' Pseudolaubuca'' (4 species) * '' Sinibrama'' (6 species) * '' Toxabramis'' (7 species)

References

*Preliminary studies on phylogeny of subfamily Cultrinae (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), P. Yue, Y, Luo, Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica, 1996 *Phylogeny and zoogeography of the cyprinid hemicultrine group (Cyprinidae: Cultrinae),YG Dai, JX Yang, Zoological Studies-Taipei-, 2003 *Phylogeny and zoogeography of the subfamily Cultrinae (Cyprinidae), Dai Yinggui, Yang Junxing, Chen Yinrui, Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 01 Jan 2005, 30(2):213-233 Fish subfamilies {{Cultrinae-stub