Ischikauia
Genus of fishes
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Ischikauia is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies. The only species in the genus is Ischikauia steenackeri, the wataka, which is endemic to Lake Biwa in Japan. This species was originally described as Opsariichthys steenackeri.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Xenocyprididae |
| Subfamily: | Cultrinae |
| Genus: | Ischikauia D. S. Jordan and Snyder, 1900[2] |
| Species: | I. steenackeri |
| Binomial name | |
| Ischikauia steenackeri (Sauvage, 1883) | |
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