''Triplophysa bombifrons'' is a species of
ray-finned fish
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species.
The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or hor ...
, a
stoneloach in the genus ''
Triplophysa
''Triplophysa'' is a genus of fish in the family Nemacheilidae found mainly in and around the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China. Currently, the genus is a mixed assemblage of species. Some lineages have been identified and treated as subgenera (''H ...
''. Some authorities classify it in the separate genus or subgenus ''
Tarimichthys
''Tarimichthys'' is a subgenus of stone loach genus ''Triplophysa'' native to China which contains two species. Some authorities recognise ''Tarimichthys'' as a valid taxon.
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:
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''.
[ It is endemic to the ]Tarim River
The Tarim River ( zh, p=Tǎlǐmù Hé, c=塔里木河; ug, تارىم دەرياسى, Tarim deryasi), known in Sanskrit as the Śītā, is an endorheic river in Xinjiang, China. It is the principal river of the Tarim Basin, a desert region of C ...
in Xinjiang
Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...
.[
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References
bombifrons
Taxa named by Solomon Herzenstein
Fish described in 1888
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