Rhodeus albomarginatus

Rhodeus albomarginatus is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the genus Rhodeus. It is endemic to China, where it is found in the Lvjiang River of the Yangtze River drainage and uses the freshwater mussel Ptychorhynchus murinum as its host for spawning.[1][2]

Rhodeus albomarginatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Rhodeus
Species:
R. albomarginatus
Binomial name
Rhodeus albomarginatus
Li & Arai, 2014[1]

References

  1. R. Froese; D. Pauly, eds. (2017). "Rhodeus albomarginatus Li & Arai, 2014". Fishbase. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  2. Li, FAN; Arai, Ryoichi (2014). "Rhodeus albomarginatus, a new bitterling (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Acheilognathinae) from China". Zootaxa. 3790: 165–176. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3790.1.7. PMID 24869865.


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