Crossocheilus

<i>Crossocheilus</i>

Crossocheilus

Genus of fishes

Crossocheilus, also known as the fringe barbs, flying foxes, or "algae eaters", is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is distributed in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in Asia.[1] These fish occur in several types of habitat, often fast-flowing rivers with rocky bottoms.[2]

Two C. oblongus resting on a rock.

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Species

There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus:[1][3]

References

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  1. [1]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Crossocheilus in FishBase. January 2016 version.
  2. [2]
    Kottelat, M. & Tan, H.H. (2011): Crossocheilus elegans, a new species of fish from northern Borneo (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Archived 2012-02-08 at the Wayback Machine Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 59 (2): 195-199.
  3. [3]
    Bailly, Nicolas (2022). "Crossocheilus Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1823". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  4. [4]
    Tan, H.H. & Kottelat, M. (2009): The fishes of the Batang Hari drainage, Sumatra, with description of six new species. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 20 (1): 13-69.

Further reading

Ciccotto, et al. 2017. (2017). "Revision of the Cyprinid Genus Crossocheilus (Tribe Labeonini) with Description of a New Species" (PDF). Copeia. 105 (2): 269–292. doi:10.1643/CI-16-538. JSTOR 26872434. S2CID 90056241.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)


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