Hemimyzon sheni: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Balitoridae
- Genus
- Hemimyzon
- Species
- Hemimyzon sheni
- Scientific Name
- Hemimyzon sheni
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Hemimyzon sheni
Hemimyzon sheni (Shen's river loach) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Hemimyzon. It is only known from Tar-Ju River basin, Taitung County, southeast Taiwan, where its type locality is. Only three specimens were collected and later attempts to find more specimens have failed. Among its relatives, H. sheni most closely resembles H. formosanus, but it seems to be more a head-water species than H. formosanus. It is a small species with standard length of 5 cm (2.0 in).
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Sibling Taxa
- Hemimyzon confluens
- Hemimyzon ecdyonuroides
- Hemimyzon elongatus
- Hemimyzon formosanus
- Hemimyzon indicus
- Hemimyzon khonensis
- Hemimyzon macroptera
- Hemimyzon megalopseos
- Hemimyzon nanensis
- Hemimyzon nujiangensis
- Hemimyzon papilio
- Hemimyzon pengi
- Hemimyzon pumilicorpora
- Hemimyzon sheni
- Hemimyzon taitungensis
- Hemimyzon tchangi
- Hemimyzon yaotanensis
- Hemimyzon yushanensis