Xenocypris
{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Pliocene-recent
| taxon = Xenocypris
| authority = Günther, 1868{{Cof family|family=Xenocyprididae|access-date=27 January 2025}}
| type_species = Xenocypris argentea
| type_species_authority = Günther, 1868
}}
Xenocypris is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies. In addition to the extant species, X. yushensis, being known only from fossils, and one, X. yunnanensis, which is critically endangered or recently extinct.
Species
Xenocypris contains the following species:{{Cof genus|genus=Xenocypris|access-date=27 January 2025}}
- Xenocypris davidi Bleeker, 1871
- Xenocypris fangi T. L. Tchang, 1930
- Xenocypris hupeinensis (P. L. Yih, 1964)
- Xenocypris macrolepis Bleeker, 1871
- Xenocypris medius (Ōshima, 1920)
- Xenocypris schisturus (Oshima, 1920)
- Xenocypris yunnanensis Nichols, 1925
- {{extinct}}Xenocypris yushensis Liu & Su, 1962 (Pliocene Shanxi Province)
References
- {{FishBase genus | genus = Xenocypris| month = October | year = 2011}}
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Category:Taxa named by Albert Günther
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