| Tanakia | |
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| Tanakia lanceolata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Acheilognathinae |
| Genus: | Tanakia D. S. Jordan & W. F. Thompson, 1914 |
| Type species | |
| Tanakia limbata Temminck & Schlegel, 1846 | |
Tanakia is a genus of cyprinid fish, consisting of seven species that occur in Eastern Asia. The type species is the Tanakia limbata.
Genus is named for Shigeho Tanaka (1878-1974), "accomplished" ichthyologist of the Imperial University of Tokyo, who described Tanakia shimazui in 1908 and Pseudorhodeus tanago in 1909.
Species
There are currently 7 species of this genus:
- Tanakia koreensis (I. S. Kim & C. H. Kim, 1990)
- Tanakia lanceolata (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
- Tanakia latimarginata (Kim, Jeon & Suk, 2014)
- Tanakia limbata (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Oily bitterling)
- Tanakia shimazui (S. Tanaka (I), 1908)
- Tanakia signifer (L. S. Berg, 1907) (Korean bitterling)
- Tanakia somjinensis (I. S. Kim & C. H. Kim, 1991)
References
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (9 February 2024). "Family ACHEILOGNATHIDAE Bleeker 1863 (Bitterlings)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- "Tanakia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 May 2007.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Tanakia". FishBase. March 2024 version.
- Kim, D.; Jeon, H.B.; Suk, H.Y. (2014). "Tanakia latimarginata, a new species of bitterling from the Nakdong River, South Korea (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)" (PDF). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 25 (1): 59–68.
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