Altigena
Genus of fishes
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Altigena is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish found in the continental part of South East Asia. This genus was resurrected from Bangana by Maurice Kottelat in 2017.[2]
| Altigena | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Labeoninae |
| Genus: | Altigena Burton, 1934[1] |
| Type species | |
| Varicorhinus discognathoides | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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The generic name was originally intended as a subgenus of Osteochilus by a Chinese author Lin, and describes the distinguishing feature, alluding to altus, "high" and γένυς (génys), "chin". As Lin did not designate a type species, authorship was granted to Burton, the editor of the Zoological Record.[3]
Species
Altigena contains the following valid species:[4]
- Altigena binhluensis (V. H. Nguyen, 2002)
- Altigena daos (V. H. Nguyễn, 2001)
- Altigena discognathoides (Nichols & Pope, 1927)
- Altigena elegans (Kottelat, 1998)
- Altigena laticeps (H. W. Wu & R. D. Lin, 1977)
- Altigena lippa (Fowler, 1936)
- Altigena loos (V. H. Nguyễn, 2001)
- Altigena malihkaia L. P. Zheng, T. Qin & X. Y. Chen, 2018
- Altigena sinkleri (Fowler, 1934)
- Altigena tonkinensis (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1934)
- Altigena wui (C. Y. Zheng & Y. R. Chen, 1983)
- Altigena yunnanensis (H. W. Wu & R. D. Lin, 1977)
- Altigena zhui (C. Y. Zheng & Chen, 1989)
