''Xenocyprioides'' 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 the genus are
endemic
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to China.
Species
''Xenocyprioides'' contains the following species:
* ''
Xenocyprioides carinatus''
Y.-Y. Chen & H. J. Huang, 1985
* ''
Xenocyprioides parvulus''
Y.-Y. Chen, 1982
References
*
Xenocyprididae
Taxa named by Chen Yi-Yu
Freshwater fish of China
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