Cyprinus megalophthalmus

Cyprinus megalophthalmus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Cypriniformes
Family:Cyprinidae
Subfamily:Cyprininae
Genus:Cyprinus
Species: C. megalophthalmus
Binomial name
Cyprinus megalophthalmus
H. W. Wu, G. R. Yang, P. Q. Yue & H. J. Huang, 1963

Cyprinus megalophthalmus is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Cyprinus that is endemic to Lake Erhai in China.[1][2] There have been no records since the 1980s and it is possibly extinct.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Wang, Wang, Li, Du, Yang, Lassoie, and Hassan (2013). Six decades of changes in vascular hydrophyte and fish species in three plateau lakes in Yunnan, China. Biodivers. Conserv. 22: 3197–3221. doi: 10.1007/s10531-013-0579-0
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Cyprinus megalophthalmus" in FishBase. April 2006 version.


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