Nipponocypris
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| Nipponocypris Temporal range: Pleistocene-Holocene | |
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| Nipponocypris temmincki | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Xenocyprididae |
| Genus: | Nipponocypris I. S. Chen, J. H. Wu & C. H. Hsu, 2008[1] |
| Type species | |
| Leuciscus temminckii | |
Nipponocypris is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies.[1] This genus has three extant species from eastern Asia and a fourth, extinct species from Middle Pleistocene-aged freshwater strata from the Kusu Basin in Japan.[2]
