Tanakia
Genus of fishes
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Tanakia is a genus of cyprinid fish, consisting of seven species that occur in Eastern Asia. The type species is the Tanakia limbata.
| Tanakia | |
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| Tanakia lanceolata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Acheilognathidae |
| Genus: | Tanakia D. S. Jordan & W. F. Thompson, 1914[1] |
| Type species | |
| Rhodeus oryzae | |
Genus is named for Shigeho Tanaka (1878-1974), "accomplished" ichthyologist of the Imperial University of Tokyo, who described Tanakia shimazui in 1908 and Pseudorhodeus tanago in 1909.[2]
Species
These are the currently recognised species in this genus:[3]
- Tanakia koreensis (I. S. Kim & C. H. Kim, 1990)
- Tanakia lanceolata (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
- Tanakia latimarginata (Kim, Jeon & Suk, 2014)
- Tanakia limbata (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Oily bitterling)
- Tanakia shimazui (Tanaka, 1908)
- Tanakia signifer (Berg, 1907) (Korean bitterling)
- Tanakia somjinensis (Kim & Kim, 1991)
