Paracanthobrama

{{Short description|Monotypic genus of fish}}

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| taxon = Paracanthobrama guichenoti

| parent_authority = Bleeker, 1864

| display_parents = 3

| authority = Bleeker, 1864

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Genus

• Gladobarbus Fowler, 1930

Species

• Hemibarbus guichenoti (Bleeker, 1864)
• Hemibarbus dissimilis Bleeker, 1871
• Barbus nigriparipinnis Fowler, 1930
• Hemibarbus soochowensis T.-H. Shaw, 1930
• Paracanthobrama pingi H.-W. Wu, 1930

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Paracanthobrama is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gobionidae. the gudgeons.{{Cof family|family=Gobionidae|access-date=25 February 2025}} The only species in the genus is Paracanthobrama guichenoti,{{Cof genus|genus=Paracanthobrama|access-date=25 February 2025}} a species which is endemic to China.{{FishBase|paracanthobrama|guichenoti|month=October|year-2025}}

Named in honor of Antoine Alphone Guichenot (1809-1876), assistant naturalist at Musée du Jardin des Plantes a Paris.{{cite web | url = https://etyfish.org/gobionidae/ | title = Family GOBIONIDAE Bleeker 1863 (Freshwater Gudgeons) | access-date = 25 February 2025 | author = Christopher Scharpf | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf | date = 24 January 2025 }}