Placocheilus robustus

Taxonavigation: Cyprinoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cyprinoidei

Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Labeoninae
Genus: Placocheilus
Species: Placocheilus robustus

Name

Placocheilus robustus Zhang et al., 2002

• Holotype: IHASW 601132.
• Paratypes: IHASW 601128-31 (4), 601133-34 (2).

Type locality: Yuanjiang River, Yuanjiang County, Yunnan Province, China.

Etymology: From robustus (= stout), referring to stouter caudal peduncle compared to congeners. (From The ETYFish project)

Synonyms

• Garra robustus (Zhang et al., 2002) -- Li et al., 2008

References

• Zhang, E, He, S.-P. & Chen, Y.-Y. 2002. Revision of the cyprinid genus Placocheilus Wu, 1977 in China, with description of a new species from Yunnan. Hydrobiologia 487: 207–217. Reference page. 
• Zhou, W., Li, M.-H., Wang, C.-P. & Qi, M., 2015: Morphometric studies of genus Placocheilus (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from Red River, China. Zoological Research 36 (6): 348-353. PDF Reference page. 

Links

• Placocheilus robustus in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Placocheilus robustus in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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