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Altigena laticeps is a species of cyprinid fish found in the Upper Mekong River basin in China. It was formerly considered a subspecies of Altigena tonkinensis.[1][2]
| Altigena laticeps | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Superfamily: | Cyprinoidea |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Genus: | Altigena |
| Species: | A. laticeps
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| Binomial name | |
| Altigena laticeps (Wu & Lin, 1977)
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Etymology
editThe specific epithet laticeps derives from the Latin latus, wide or broad; and -ceps meaning "head".[3]
References
edit- ^ Patrick J Ciccotto; Feng Lin; Xiao-Yong Chen (2021). "Taxonomic revisions of Altigena laticeps and A. lippa (Cyprinidae: Labeoninae) from the Mekong River Basin". Zootaxa. 4941 (2). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4941.2.7. PMID 33756943.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2024). "Altigena lippa" in FishBase. July 2024 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (19 July 2024). "Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily LABEONINAE Bleeker 1859 (Labeos)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
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