Chinese rice fish
| Chinese rice fish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Beloniformes |
| Family: | Adrianichthyidae |
| Subfamily: | Oryziinae |
| Genus: | Oryzias |
| Species: | O. sinensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Oryzias sinensis Chen, Uwa & Chu, 1989 | |
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The Chinese rice fish (Oryzias sinensis) is a species of fish in the genus Oryzias. This freshwater fish occurs in swamps, stagnant parts of streams, rice fields and marshes, and is up to 3.1 cm (1.2 in) long.[2] It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Japanese rice fish (Oryzias latipes).[1]
The natural range of the Chinese rice fish is in East and Southeast Asia in the Mekong, Irrawaddy, Salween, Red River and Nanpangjiang basins.[3] It has been introduced to Kazakhstan and Russia (in the lower Kuban drainage); also spreading in the Azov basin and has been discovered in the Obytichna River in Ukraine.[4]
References
- 1 2 Parenti, L. (2012). "Oryzias sinensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 3.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Oryzias sinensis" in FishBase. January 2013 version.
- ↑ Kottelat, M., 2001. Fishes of Laos. WHT Publications Ltd., Colombo 5, Sri Lanka. 198 p.
- ↑ Kottelat, M. and J. Freyhof, 2007. Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland. 646 p.
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