Tanakia shimazui
Tanakia shimazui is a species of fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to Japan.[1]
| Tanakia shimazui | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Acheilognathinae |
| Genus: | Tanakia |
| Species: | T. shimazui |
| Binomial name | |
| Tanakia shimazui S. Tanaka, 1908 | |
Etymology
Named in honor of “Mr. Shimazu” (no forename given), a naturalist in Tokyo, who collected type.[2]
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2017). "Tanakia shimazui" in FishBase. April 2017 version.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families ACHEILOGNATHIDAE, GOBIONIDAE and TANICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
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