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Dark Chubs
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Dark Chubs

Nipponocypris

Nipponocypris is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies. This genus has three extant species from eastern Asia and a fourth, extinct species from Middle Pleistocene-aged freshwater strata from the Kusu Basin in Japan.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Dark Chub

speciesNipponocypris temminckii

Korean Dark Chub

speciesNipponocypris koreanus

Japanese Dark Chub

speciesNipponocypris sieboldii

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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 90322.