Nipponocypris
| Nipponocypris Temporal range: Pleistocene-Holocene
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| Nipponocypris temmincki | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Genus: | Nipponocypris I. S. Chen, J. H. Wu & C. H. Hsu, 2008 |
| Type species | |
| Leuciscus temminckii Temminck & Schlegel, 1846
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Nipponocypris is a genus of cyprinid fish containing three extant species, one endemic to Japan, one to South Korea while the third occurs in Japan, Korea and China. A fourth, extinct species is known from Middle Pleistocene-aged freshwater strata from the Kusu Basin in Japan.[1]
Species
- Nipponocypris koreanus (I. S. Kim, M. K. Oh & K. Hosoya, 2005)
- Nipponocypris sieboldii (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
- Nipponocypris temminckii (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Nipponocypris in FishBase. August 2011 version.
- ^ Miyata, Shinya, Yoshitaka Yabumoto, and Hiromichi Hirano. "Nipponocypris takayamai, a new species of cyprinid fish from the Nogami Formation (Middle Pleistocene) in the southern part of the Kusu Basin, Oita, Japan." Paleontological Research 22.3 (2018): 218-239.
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