''Hemiculter'' is a genus of
cyprinid
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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 li ...
, consisting of eight species native to fresh water of eastern Asia (
Siberia
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to
Vietnam
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). The
type species
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is the sharpbelly, ''Culter leucisculus''. The name is derived from the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
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word ''hemis'', meaning "half", and 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".
Species
* ''
Hemiculter bleekeri''
Warpachowski, 1887
* ''
Hemiculter elongatus''
V. H. Nguyễn & S. V. Ngô, 2001
* ''
Hemiculter krempfi''
Pellegrin & Chevey, 1938
* ''
Hemiculter leucisculus''
( Basilewsky, 1855) (sharpbelly)
* ''
Hemiculter lucidus''
( Dybowski, 1872) (Ussuri sharpbelly)
* ''
Hemiculter songhongensis''
V. H. Nguyễn & Nguyen, 2001
* ''
Hemiculter tchangi''
P. W. Fang, 1942
* ''
Hemiculter varpachovskii''
A. M. Nikolskii, 1903
References
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Cyprinidae genera
Cyprinid fish of Asia
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