Onychostoma alticorpus

Onychostoma alticorpus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Onychostoma
Species: O. alticorpus
Binomial name
Onychostoma alticorpus
(Ōshima, 1920)
Synonyms

Onychostoma alticorps (Oshima, 1920) [orth. error]

Onychostoma alticorpus (common name: Taiwan ku fish) is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family. It can grow to 50 cm (20 in) TL, but commonly only to about half of that.[2][3]

Onychostoma alticorpus is endemic to Taiwan where it is known from only five river basins. It is a herbivorous species that occurs in streams. As with other riverine species, its habitat can be threatened by siltation, dam building, and pollution.[3]

References

  1. Kottelat, M. (1996). "Onychostoma alticorpus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Onychostoma alticorpus" in FishBase. December 2013 version.
  3. 1 2 Chen, I. S. (2008). "Threatened fishes of the world: Onychostoma alticorpus (Oshima, 1920) (Cyprinidae)". Environmental Biology of Fishes 86: 73–74. doi:10.1007/s10641-007-9323-5.


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