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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Cypriniformes
Subordo: Cyprinoidei

Familia: Xenocyprididae
Genus: Opsariichthys
Species: O. bea – O. bidens – O. brevistomatus – O. dienbienensis – O. dorsoarcus – O. evolans – O. hainanensis – O. hieni – O. iridescens – O. kaopingensis – O. longianalis – O. pachycephalus – O. rubriventris – O. songmaensis – O. uncirostris
Name

Opsariichthys Bleeker, 1863

Type species: Leuciscus uncirostris Temminck & Schlegel, 1846

References

Bleeker, P.; 1863: Systema Cyprinoideorum revisum. Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde, 1: 187–218. BHL Reference page.
Peng, X., Zhou, J-J., Gao, H-D. & Yang, J-Q. 2024. A new species of Opsariichthys (Teleostei, Cypriniformes, Xenocyprididae) from Southeast China. ZooKeys 1214: 15–34. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1214.127532 Open access Reference page.

Opsariichthys is a genus of cyprinid fish[1][2] found in freshwater habitats in Mainland China (including Hainan), Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.[3] There are currently 12 described species in the genus.[1][2]
Species

There are 13 species, some with uncertain status:[1][2]

Opsariichthys bea T. T. Nguyen, 1987
Opsariichthys bidens Günther, 1873
Opsariichthys dienbienensis V. H. Nguyễn & H. D. Nguyễn, 2000
Opsariichthys duchuunguyeni Huynh T. Q. & I. S. Chen, 2013[3]
Opsariichthys evolans (D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1902)
Opsariichthys hainanensis Nichols & C. H. Pope, 1927
Opsariichthys hieni T. T. Nguyen, 1987
Opsariichthys kaopingensis I. S. Chen & J. H. Wu, 2009
Opsariichthys macrolepis (Yang & Hwang, 1964)
Opsariichthys minutus Nichols, 1926
Opsariichthys pachycephalus Günther, 1868
Opsariichthys songmaensis V. H. Nguyễn & H. D. Nguyễn, 2000
Opsariichthys uncirostris (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) — three-lips, hasu (ハス)

The status of Opsariichthys bea and Opsariichthys hieni are uncertain; the former might belong to the genus Parazacco and the latter to Rasbora.[2][3]
References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Opsariichthys". FishBase. October 2016 version.
Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke; R. van der Laan, eds. (1 March 2017). "Catalog of Fishes". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
Huynh, Thien Quang; Chen, I-Shiung (2013). "A new species of cyprinid fish of genus Opsariichthys from Ky Cung – Bang Giang river basin, northern Vietnam with notes on the taxonomic status of the genus from Northern Vietnam and Southern China" (PDF). Journal of Marine Science and Technology. 21 (Suppl): 135–145. doi:10.6119/JMST-013-1219-12.

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