Amur minnow

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| image = Phoxinus lagowskii steindachneri1.jpg

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| taxon = Rhynchocypris lagowskii

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| authority = (Dybowski, 1869)

| synonyms =

  • Lagowskiella lagowskii
  • Moroco yamamotis
  • Phoximus lagowskii
  • Pseudaspis bergi
  • Rhynchocypris variegata

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The Amur minnow or Lagowski's minnow (Rhynchocypris lagowskii) is an Asian species of small freshwater cyprinid fish.{{FishBase species |genus= Rhynchocypris |species=lagowskii |month=November |year=2014}} It is found from the Lena and Amur rivers in the north to the Yangtze in China in the south, and in Japan.{{cite journal |title=Influence of the domestic alien fish Rhynchocypris oxycephalus invasion on the distribution of the closely related native fish R. lagowskii in the Tama River Basin, Japan |year=2015 |last1=Nishida |first1=Kazuya |last2=Koizumi |first2=Noriyuki |last3=Satoh |first3=Toshiyuki |last4=Senga |first4=Yutaro |last5=Takemura |first5=Takeshi |last6=Watabe |first6=Keiji |last7=Mori |first7=Atsushi |journal=Landscape and Ecological Engineering |volume=11 |pages=169–176 |doi=10.1007/s11355-014-0257-8 |s2cid=10488199 }}

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