Acrossocheilus longipinnis

Acrossocheilus longipinnis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Acrossocheilus
Species:
A. longipinnis
Binomial name
Acrossocheilus longipinnis
Wu, 1939[1]
Synonyms
  • Acrossocheilus iridescens longipinnis (Wu, 1939)
  • Acrossocheilus iridescens zhujiangensis Wu & Lin, 1977
  • Acrossocheilus stenotaeniatus Chu & Cui, 1989
  • Lissochilus longipinnis Wu, 1939
  • Masticbarbus pentafasciatus Tang, 1942

Acrossocheilus longipinnis is a species of cyprinid fish from the Pearl River basin in southern China.

Taxonomy

This fish was placed in the genus Acrossocheilus and treated as a subspecies of M. iridescens (then known as Acrossocheilus iridescens), but a 2012 study supported the separation of the two subspecies.[2]

Its genome has been sequenced.[3]

Description

Acrossocheilus longipinnis reaches at least 38 cm (15 in) in length.[2] Juveniles are pale yellowish with 5–6 narrow dark bars on the flanks, but in adults over 11 cm (4.3 in) in standard length, the dark bars are much wider.[2] This species can be distinguished from M. iridescens by looking at the first branched dorsal-fin ray, which is extended as a filament in this species and not extended in M. iridescens.[2]

References

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Acrossocheilus longipinnis". FishBase. February 2017 version.
  2. ^ a b c d Yuan; Chan; Zhang (2012). "Acrossocheilus longipinnis (Wu 1939), a senior synonym of Acrossocheilus stenotaeniatus Chu & Cui 1989 from the Pearl River basin (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3586: 160–172.
  3. ^ E, Zechen; Xiong, Fangyuan; Zhu, Yuansheng; Wang, Li; Zhang, Jiajun; Dong, Shenghui; Lu, Mingxiang (2026-01-30). "Chromosome-level genome assembly of the longfin barb (Acrossocheilus longipinnis)". Scientific Data. 13 (1): 600. doi:10.1038/s41597-026-06656-y. ISSN 2052-4463. PMC 13079900. PMID 41617727.