Linichthys
Monotypic genusof fish
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Linichthys is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish be;onging to the family Cyprinidae, the family which includes the carps, barbs, minnows and related fishes. The only species in the genus is Linichthys lateiceps, a species found only in the upper and middle Pearl River basin and the upper Yangtze basin in the city of Guiyang in Guizhou Province in Southern China This species reaches a length of 11.0 cm (4.3 in).[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Labeoninae |
| Genus: | Linichthys E. Zhang & F. Fang, 2005 |
| Species: | L. laticeps |
| Binomial name | |
| Linichthys laticeps (R. D. Lin & C. G. Zhang, 1986) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Barbodes laticeps Lin & Zhang, 1986 | |
Etymology
The genus is named after Lin Ren-Duan. A Chinese ichthyologist.[2]
