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 Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Poropuntius
Species:
P. exiguus
Binomial name
Poropuntius exiguus
Synonyms

Barbodes exigua Wu & Lin, 1977

References edit

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Poropuntius exiguus" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
  2. ^ a b 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