''Pungtungia'' 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 fishies in this genus are found in
Eastern Asia
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.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Pungtungia herzi''
Herzenstein, 1892
* ''
Pungtungia hilgendorfi''
( D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1903)
* ''
Pungtungia shiraii''
Ōshima, 1957
References
Gobionidae
Taxa named by Solomon Herzenstein
Cyprinid fish of Asia
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