Culter alburnus
| Culter alburnus | |
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| Museum specimen (living are silvery in colour) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Genus: | Culter |
| Species: | C. alburnus
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| Binomial name | |
| Culter alburnus Basilewsky, 1855
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| Synonyms | |
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Erythroculter ilishaeformis | |
Culter alburnus, the topmouth culter, is an East Asian species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the cyprinid genus Culter.
Geographic distribution and habitat[edit]
Culter alburnus occurs in Lake Buir, the Onon and Kherlen drainages in Mongolia, as well as the Amur and Red River drainages in Far East Russia and China, it has also been recorded from Taiwan and Hainan. It can be found in rivers and floodplain lakes which have dense growth of macrophytes.[1]
Footnotes[edit]
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Culter alburnus" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
References[edit]
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