''Culter'' is a genus of
cyprinid
Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family and the largest ver ...
fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of ...
, consisting of four species found in freshwater of eastern Asia (
Siberia
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to
Vietnam
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). The name is derived from the
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
word ''culter'', meaning "knife". ''Culter'' is closely related to ''
Chanodichthys
''Chanodichthys'' is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish, consisting of five species from eastern Asia (China, Mongolia, Russia and Vietnam). The name is derived from the Greek word ''chanos'', meaning "abyss, mouth opened, inmensity", and the Gr ...
'' and some species have been moved between these genera.
Species
* ''
Culter alburnus''
Basilewsky, 1855
* ''
Culter flavipinnis''
Tirant, 1883
* ''
Culter oxycephaloides''
Kreyenberg & Pappenheim
Pappenheim is a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the river Altmühl, 11 km south of Weißenburg in Bayern.
History
Historically, Pappenheim was a statelet within Holy Roman Empire. It ...
, 1908
* ''
Culter recurviceps''
( J. Richardson, 1846)
References
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Ray-finned fish genera
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