Poropuntius exiguus

Poropuntius exiguus is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Poropuntius that is endemic to Lake Erhai in China.[2] It has not been recorded since the 1970s and it is possibly extinct.[2]

Poropuntius exiguus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Poropuntius
Species:
P. exiguus
Binomial name
Poropuntius exiguus
(H. W. Wu & R. D. Lin, 1977)[1]
Synonyms

Barbodes exigua Wu & Lin, 1977

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Poropuntius exiguus" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
  2. Wang, Wang, Li, Du, Yang, Lassoie, and Hassan (2013). Six decades of changes in vascular hydrophyte and fish species in three plateau lakes in Yunnan, China. Biodivers. Conserv. 22: 3197–3221. doi: 10.1007/s10531-013-0579-0


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