Poropuntius is a genus of cyprinid fish found mainly in freshwater habitats of South Asia and Yunnan in China, but P. burtoni is from Southeast Asia.[2] Several species have highly restricted ranges and are threatened, and one species, P. speleops is a cavefish.[3]
Species
These are the currently recognized species in this genus:[4]
- Poropuntius alloiopleurus (Vaillant, 1893)
- Poropuntius anlaoensis Hoàng, Phạm & Trần, 2024
- Poropuntius burtoni (Mukerji, 1933)
- Poropuntius carinatus (H. W. Wu & R. D. Lin, 1977)
- Poropuntius chonglingchungi (T. L. Tchang, 1938)
- Poropuntius clavatus (McClelland, 1845)
- Poropuntius cogginii (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1911)
- Poropuntius deauratus (Valenciennes, 1842)
- Poropuntius exiguus (H. W. Wu & R. D. Lin, 1977)
- Poropuntius faucis (H. M. Smith, 1945)
- Poropuntius fuxianhuensis (Y. H. Wang, D. D. Zhuang & L. C. Gao, 1982)
- Poropuntius genyognathus T. R. Roberts, 1998
- Poropuntius hampaloides (Vinciguerra, 1890)
- Poropuntius hathe T. R. Roberts, 1998
- Poropuntius heterolepidotus T. R. Roberts, 1998.
- Poropuntius huangchuchieni (T. L. Tchang, 1962)
- Poropuntius kontumensis (Chevey, 1934)
- Poropuntius krempfi (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1934)
- Poropuntius laoensis (Günther, 1868)
- Poropuntius margarianus (J. Anderson, 1879)
- Poropuntius melanogrammus T. R. Roberts, 1998
- Poropuntius opisthoptera (H. W. Wu, 1977)
- Poropuntius schanicus (Boulenger, 1893)
- Poropuntius shanensis (Hora & Mukerji, 1934)
- Poropuntius speleops (T. R. Roberts, 1991)
- Poropuntius tawarensis (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1916)
References
- ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Cyprininae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Poropuntius". FishBase. July 2024 version.
- ^ Romero, A., ed. (2001). The Biology of Hypogean Fishes. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. Vol. 21. p. 18. ISBN 978-1402000768.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Poropuntius". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
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