Decorus
Genus of fishes
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Decorus is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish found in China and India. This genus was split from Bangana in 2019.[2]
| Decorus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Labeoninae |
| Genus: | Decorus Zheng, Chen & Yang, 2019[1] |
| Type species | |
| Labeo decorus | |
The generic name is Latin for "beautiful" and is tautonymous with the type species.[3]
Species
There are currently five recognized species in this genus.[4][5]
- Decorus decorus (Peters, 1881)
- Decorus lemassoni Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936)
- Decorus rendahli (Kimura, 1934)
- Decorus tungting (Nichols, 1925)
- Decorus xanthogenys (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936)
