''Metzia'' 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
family
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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 Asia. The genus is named in honor of the American ichthyologist
Charles William Metz of
Stanford University
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.
Species
These are the currently recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Metzia alba''
( T. T. Nguyen, 1991)
* ''
Metzia bounthobi''
Shibukawa, Phousavanh, Phongsa & Iwata, 2012
* ''
Metzia formosae''
( Ōshima, 1920)
* ''
Metzia hautus''
(T. T. Nguyen, 1991)
* ''
Metzia lineata''
( Pellegrin, 1907)
* ''
Metzia longinasus''
X. Gan, J. H. Lan & E. Zhang
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, 2009
* ''
Metzia mesembrinum''
(D. S. Jordan
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& Evermann, 1902)
* ''
Metzia parva''
W. Luo, J. P. Sullivan, H. T. Zhao & Z. G. Peng, 2015
References
Xenocyprididae
Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
Taxa named by William Francis Thompson
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