Poropuntius
Genus of fishes
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Poropuntius is a genus of cyprinid fish found mainly in freshwater habitats of South Asia and Yunnan in China, but P. burtoni is from Southeast Asia.[2] Several species have highly restricted ranges and are threatened, and one species, P. speleops is a cavefish.[3]
| Poropuntius | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Cyprininae |
| Genus: | Poropuntius H. M. Smith, 1931[1] |
| Type species | |
| Poropuntius normani H. M. Smith, 1931[1] | |
Species
These are the currently recognized species in this genus:[4]
- Poropuntius alloiopleurus (Vaillant, 1893)
- Poropuntius anlaoensis Hoàng, Phạm & Trần, 2024
- Poropuntius burtoni (Mukerji, 1933)
- Poropuntius carinatus (H. W. Wu & R. D. Lin, 1977)
- Poropuntius chonglingchungi (T. L. Tchang, 1938)
- Poropuntius clavatus (McClelland, 1845)
- Poropuntius cogginii (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1911)
- Poropuntius deauratus (Valenciennes, 1842)
- Poropuntius exiguus (H. W. Wu & R. D. Lin, 1977)
- Poropuntius faucis (H. M. Smith, 1945)
- Poropuntius fuxianhuensis (Y. H. Wang, D. D. Zhuang & L. C. Gao, 1982)
- Poropuntius genyognathus T. R. Roberts, 1998
- Poropuntius hampaloides (Vinciguerra, 1890)
- Poropuntius hathe T. R. Roberts, 1998
- Poropuntius heterolepidotus T. R. Roberts, 1998.
- Poropuntius huangchuchieni (T. L. Tchang, 1962)
- Poropuntius kontumensis (Chevey, 1934)
- Poropuntius krempfi (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1934)
- Poropuntius laoensis (Günther, 1868)
- Poropuntius margarianus (J. Anderson, 1879)
- Poropuntius melanogrammus T. R. Roberts, 1998
- Poropuntius opisthopterus (H. W. Wu, 1977)
- Poropuntius schanicus (Boulenger, 1893)
- Poropuntius shanensis (Hora & Mukerji, 1934)
- Poropuntius speleops (T. R. Roberts, 1991)
- Poropuntius tawarensis (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1916)
