Sinibrama
Sinibrama is a small genus of cyprinid fishes, the five currently recognized species distributed in south China, Taiwan, Laos, and Vietnam. These are silvery fishes with deep, laterally compressed bodies, large eyes, and terminal mouths. They tend to grow no larger than 20 cm in standard length.
| Sinibrama | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Cultrinae |
| Genus: | Sinibrama H. W. Wu, 1939 |
| Type species | |
| Chanodichthys wui Lin 1932 | |
The taxonomy of the group is frequently disputed, as all forms are very similar with more or less overlapping morphometric data.
Species
The genus contains these species:[1]
- Sinibrama affinis (Vaillant, 1892)
- Sinibrama longianalis Z. G. Xie, C. X. Xie & E. Zhang, 2003
- Sinibrama macrops (Günther, 1868)
- Sinibrama melrosei (Nichols & C. H. Pope, 1927)
- Sinibrama taeniatus (Nichols, 1941)
- Sinibrama wui (Rendahl (de), 1932)
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References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Sinibrama in FishBase. October 2011 version.
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