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  1. Animals
  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Ray-finned Fishes
  5. ›Carps, Characins, Catfishes and Allies
  6. ›Minnows, Suckers, Carps, and Loaches
  7. ›Carps and Minnows
  8. ›Cyprinids
  9. ›Mountain Barbels
  10. ›Ptychobarbus
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IUCN EN · Endangered

Ptychobarbus chungtienensis

Ptychobarbus chungtienensis, the heavy lips fish, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae, which includes the carps, barbs, minnows and related fishes.

This species is endemic to China, where it is only known from Zhongdian in Yunnan. Here it is recorded from Bita Hai, Shudu Hu and Napa Hai, Xiaozhongdian He, Naya He and Geza He in the Jinsha Jiang river basin. Since the 1990s, it is extant only in Xiaozhongdian He, Gezan He and Bita Hai.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 613434.