Tanakia

Tanakia
Tanakia lanceolata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Acheilognathinae
Genus:	Tanakia D. S. Jordan & W. F. Thompson, 1914
Type species
Tanakia limbata Temminck & Schlegel, 1846

Tanakia is a genus of cyprinid fish, consisting of seven species that occur in Eastern Asia. The type species is the Tanakia limbata.

Genus is named for Shigeho Tanaka (1878-1974), “accomplished” ichthyologist of the Imperial University of Tokyo, who described Tanakia shimazui in 1908 and Pseudorhodeus tanago in 1909.^[1]

Species

There are currently 7 species of this genus:^[2][3]

• Tanakia koreensis (I. S. Kim & C. H. Kim, 1990)
• Tanakia lanceolata (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
• Tanakia latimarginata (Kim, Jeon & Suk, 2014) ^[4]
• Tanakia limbata (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Oily bitterling)
• Tanakia shimazui (S. Tanaka (I), 1908)
• Tanakia signifer (L. S. Berg, 1907) (Korean bitterling)
• Tanakia somjinensis (I. S. Kim & C. H. Kim, 1991)

References

1. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (9 February 2024). "Family ACHEILOGNATHIDAE Bleeker 1863 (Bitterlings)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
2. "Tanakia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 May 2007.
3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Tanakia". FishBase. March 2024 version.
4. Kim, D.; Jeon, H.B.; Suk, H.Y. (2014). "Tanakia latimarginata, a new species of bitterling from the Nakdong River, South Korea (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)" (PDF). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 25 (1): 59–68.