''Huigobio exilicauda'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

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 verte ...

fish found in the

Pearl River The Pearl River, also known by its Chinese name Zhujiang or Zhu Jiang in Mandarin pinyin or Chu Kiang and formerly often known as the , is an extensive river system in southern China. The name "Pearl River" is also often used as a catch-all ...

basin in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. All of the specimens were collected in the Pearl River basin in Guangdong Province, China, in 1976. It is sometimes considered an ambiguous synonym of

Huigobio chenhsienensis ''Huigobio chenhsienensis'' is a species of cyprinid fish found only in the Cao'ejiang and Zhujiang Rivers in China. This species can reach a length of SL. It is of minor importance to local commercial fisheries Commercial fishing is the ...

. Differs from Huigobio chenhsienensis in that it has a thin (vs. stouter) caudal peduncle (depth 6.8–7.8 vs. 9.0–10.5 percent of SL; length 17.1–19.5 vs. 13.9–16.3 percent of SL); and a narrower (vs. greater) interorbital gap than eye. The body is elongated, anteriorly subcylindrical, and posteriorly compressed, with the greatest body depth at the dorsal fin origin and the smallest caudal-peduncle depth directly anterior to the caudal-fin base. From the snout tip to the dorsal-fin origin, the dorsal body profile is slightly convex or straight; from there to the caudal-fin base, it is slightly concave. From the snout tip to the pectoral-fin insertion, the ventral profile is flat; from then to the anal-fin origin, it is convex, then slightly concave from the anal-fin origin to the caudalfin base. Anus is located slightly closer to the insertion of the pelvic fin than to the origin of the anal fin. Slender and tightly compressed caudal peduncle. The head is small, and the depth of the body is approximately equal to or shorter than the depth of the head. When viewed from the side, the snout is bluntly rounded, with a shallow transverse notch across the tip in front of the nostrils. Large, dorsolaterally positioned eye that is practically in the centre of the skull. Interorbital space is somewhat concave, narrow, and has a breadth that is smaller than the diameter of the eye. Nostrils are closer to the eye's anterior edge than to the tip of the snout. Maxillary barbels are rooted at the base of the external surface of the confluence of the upper and lower lips at the mouth's corner, and are shorter than half the diameter of the eye. Mouth is inferior and transverse, with a fissure at the corner of the mouth that bends somewhat backward.

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Huigobio Freshwater fish of China Fish described in 2013 {{Cyprinidae-stub