LI Zai-yun, CHEN Yin-rui, YANG Jun-xing, CHEN Xiao-yong. Fishes of Genus Sikukia (Teleostei,Cypriniformes,Cyprinidae) in Lancangjiang River System (Cypriniformes:Cyprinidae). Zoological Research, 1998, 19(6): 453-457.
Citation:
LI Zai-yun, CHEN Yin-rui, YANG Jun-xing, CHEN Xiao-yong. Fishes of Genus Sikukia (Teleostei,Cypriniformes,Cyprinidae) in Lancangjiang River System (Cypriniformes:Cyprinidae). Zoological Research, 1998, 19(6): 453-457.
LI Zai-yun, CHEN Yin-rui, YANG Jun-xing, CHEN Xiao-yong. Fishes of Genus Sikukia (Teleostei,Cypriniformes,Cyprinidae) in Lancangjiang River System (Cypriniformes:Cyprinidae). Zoological Research, 1998, 19(6): 453-457.
Citation:
LI Zai-yun, CHEN Yin-rui, YANG Jun-xing, CHEN Xiao-yong. Fishes of Genus Sikukia (Teleostei,Cypriniformes,Cyprinidae) in Lancangjiang River System (Cypriniformes:Cyprinidae). Zoological Research, 1998, 19(6): 453-457.
Fishes of the genus Sikukia (Cyprinidae:Barbinae) can be distinguished from other fishes of Barbinae in several characters,such as snout shorter,eyes bigger,adipose eyelid absent etc.So far three species have been recorded.We report a new species S.longibarbata in this paper,so there are totally four species now.All of them can be found in Lancangjiang river,Yunnan.