''Platysmacheilus'' 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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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 species in this genus are
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to China.
Species
''Platysmaccheilus'' ontains the following species:
* ''
Platysmacheilus exiguus''
( S. Y. Lin, 1932)
* ''
Platysmacheilus longibarbatus''
Y. L. Lu, P. Q. Luo P. is an abbreviation or acronym that may refer to:
* Page (paper), where the abbreviation comes from Latin ''pagina''
* Paris Herbarium, at the ''Muséum national d'histoire naturelle''
* ''Pani'' (Polish), translating as Mrs.
* The ''Pacific Rep ...
& Yi-Yu Chen, 1977
* ''
Platysmacheilus nudiventris''
P. Q. Luo, Lu & Yi-Yu Chen, 1977
* ''
Platysmacheilus obtusirostris''
( H.-S. Wu & K.-F. Wang, 1931)
* ''
Platysmacheilus wangcangensis''
Z.-G. Chen, Yang & Y.-S. Guo, 2021
* ''
Platysmacheilus zhenjiangensis''
Y. Ni, X. H. Chen & G. Zhou, 2005
References
Sources
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Gobionidae
Taxa named by Chen Yi-Yu
Freshwater fish of China
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