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• Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
  • Kingdom: Animalia () - C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
    • Subkingdom: Bilateria () - (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
      • Branch: Deuterostomia () - Grobben, 1908
        • Infrakingdom: Chordonia () - (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
          • Phylum: Chordata () - Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
            • Subphylum: Vertebrata () - Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
              • Infraphylum: Gnathostomata () - auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
                • Superclass: Osteichthyes () - Huxley, 1880
                  • Subclass: Actinopterygii ()
                    • Infraclass: Actinopteri ()
                      • Cohort: Clupeocephala ()
                        • Order: Cypriniformes ()
                          • Superfamily: Cobitoidea ()
                            • Family: Cobitidae ()
                              • Genus: Misgurnus () - Lacepède, 1803
                                • Specific name: anguillicaudatus
                                  • Scientific name: - the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
                                  • Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Name Status: Accepted Name .

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                                    Members of the genus Misgurnus

                                    ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in this genus:

                                    M. anguillicauda (Japanese Weatherfish) · M. anguillicaudatus (Dojo Loach) · M. anguillicaudatus erikssoni (Amur Mud Loach) · M. fossilis (Weather-Fish) · M. mizolepis (Pond Loach)

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                                    • A catalog of the fishes of Formosa. By David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Pittsburgh, Board of trustees of the Carnegie institute, 1909. url p. 169.
                                    • A catalog of the fishes of the island of Formosa, or Taiwan: based on the collections of Dr. Hans Sauter / by David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1907?] url p. 169.
                                    • A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Report presented at the eighty-ninth annual meeting, Clearwater, Fla., Sept. 16-18, 1959. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1960. url p. 18.
                                    • Anatomical and zoological researches: comprising an account of the zoological results of the two expeditions to western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875; and a monograph of the two cetacean genera, Platanista and Orcella / London: B. Quaritch, 1878. url .
                                    • Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 187, p. 190, p. 191.
                                    • Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1971- url p. 139, p. 165, p. 86.
                                    • California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 14, p. 153, p. 25, p. 261, p. 330, p. 38.
                                    • Catalogue of the fishes in the. .. Museum / by A. Günther 1868. url p. 345.
                                    • Central Asiatic Expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History, under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews: preliminary contributions in geology, palaeontology, and zoology / by R.C. Andrews. .. [et al.] [New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1926-1930]. url , p. 2, p. 337, p. 394, p. 42, p. 471, p. 6.
                                    • Commercial fisheries review. [Washington]: National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] url p. 105.
                                    • Current bibliography for aquatic sciences and fisheries. London, Taylor & Francis ltd. url p. 233, p. 234, p. 259, p. 301, p. 698, p. 728.
                                    • Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 109, p. 159, p. 172, p. 178, p. 194, p. 235, p. 241, p. 317, p. 341, p. 490, p. 721.
                                    • Evolution: process and product. New York, Reinhold[1960] url p. 221.
                                    • Fur and feather in North China. Tientsin, North China: Tientsin Press, 1914. url p. 178, p. 178.
                                    • General embryological information service. Utrecht, Hubrecht Laboratory. url p. 130, p. 43, p. 70.
                                    • Hawaiian fishes; a handbook of the fishes found among the islands of the central Pacific ocean, by Spencer Wilkie Tinker. .. illustrated by Gordon S. C. Chun and Y. Oda. Honolulu, Hawaii, Tongg publishing company, 1944. url p. 396.
                                    • Illinois biological monographs. Urbana, Univ. of Illinois Press. url p. 133, p. 93.
                                    • Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901-1936. url p. 14, p. 169, p. 214, p. 430.
                                    • Non-native fishes inhabiting the streams and lakes of Illinois / Champaign, Ill.: Illinois Natural History Survey, [1996] url , p. 2, p. 22.
                                    • Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 122, p. 122, p. 180, p. 407, p. 407, p. 60, p. 60.
                                    • Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 208, p. 223.
                                    • Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 110, p. 784.
                                    • Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url .
                                    • Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 201, p. 321, p. 340, p. 489, p. 519, p. 766, p. 832, p. 834, p. 936.
                                    • Protozoology: a manual for medical men, veterinarians and zoologists / by C. M. Wenyon. New York: W. Wood, 1926. url p. 605, p. 642.
                                    • Record of fishes obtained in Japan in 1911, by David Starr Jordan and William Francis Thompson. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1914 url p. 214.
                                    • Record of the fishes obtained in Japan in 1911 / by David Starr Jordan and William Francis Thompson. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1914] url p. 214.
                                    • Records of the Indian Museum. Calcutta: Pub. by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum, . 1907-1962. url p. 24.
                                    • Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76: under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. / prepared under the superintendence of Sir C. Wyville Thomson. Edinburgh: Neill, 1880-1895. url p. 72.
                                    • Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 142 1961 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 8.
                                    • Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 151, p. 187, p. 339.
                                    • Studies on Myxosporidia; a synopsis of genera and species of Myxosporidia; with 25 plates and 2 textfigures, by Rokusaburo Kudo. .. Urbana, Ill., University of Illinois, c1920 url p. 117, p. 133, p. 149, p. 93, p. 93.
                                    • The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 250, p. 250, p. 261, p. 430.
                                    • The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 114, p. 122, p. 124, p. 564.
                                    • The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. London, International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. url p. 361.
                                    • The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 424.
                                    • The Great Basin naturalist. 47 1987 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url courtenay et al., page 523.
                                    • The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan = Tokyo Teikoku Daigaku kiyo. Rika. Tokyo, Japan: The University, 1898-1925. url p. 60.
                                    • The Philippine journal of science. 19 1921 Manila. url p. 723, p. 770.
                                    • The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. .. by Dr. Max Weber. .. and Dr. L.F. de Beaufort. Leiden, E.J. Brill, Ltd., 1911- url p. 138, p. 139, p. 254.
                                    • The fresh-water fishes of China / by John Treadwell Nichols; with 143 figures in the text, 10 colored plates, and 1 map. 1943 New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1943. url p. 205.
                                    • The lipids, their chemistry and biochemistry. New York, Interscience Publishers, 1951-57. url p. 868.
                                    • The reptiles of China: turtles, crocodilians, snakes, lizards / by Clifford H. Pope; with 78 illustrations in the text, including a map, and 27 plates at end. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1935. url p. 352.
                                    • Through Shên-kan: the account of the Clark expedition in north China, 1908-9 / By Robert Sterling Clark and Arthur de C. Sowerby, ed. by Major C. H. Chepmell. London [etc.]: T. F. Unwin, 1912. url p. 113.
                                    • Through Shên-kan; the account of the Clark expedition in north China, 1908-9. By Robert Sterling Clark and Arthur de C. Sowerby, ed. by Major C. H. Chepmell. London [etc.]T. F. Unwin, 1912. url p. 113.
                                    • Zoological Society bulletin. [New York]: New York Zoological Society. url p. 95.

                                    Notes

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                                    Contributors

                                    • American Fisheries Society. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
                                    • Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
                                    • Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
                                    • FishBase 2006.
                                    • FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
                                    • Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed June 01, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
                                    • Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

                                    Data Sources

                                    Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 15, 2007:
                                    
                                    

                                    • FishBase, FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
                                    • Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate specimens
                                    • OZCAM
                                    • Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
                                    • Royal Ontario Museum, Fish specimens
                                    • The Swedish Museum of Natural History
                                    • , Fishes
                                    • University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center, Fish Collection
                                    • University of Washington Burke Museum, University of Washington Fish Collection

                                    Identifiers

                                    • Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 132056
                                    • Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-24787
                                    • Fishbase Species ID: 3016
                                    • Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13731130
                                    • Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 163978
                                    • Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AFCJD01010
                                    • Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 116827

                                    Footnotes

                                    1. Kottelat, M. (1998). Fishes of the Nam Theun and Xe Bangfai basins, Laos, with diagnoses of twenty-two new species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae, Balitoridae, Cobitidae, Coiidae and Odontobutidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 9(1):1-128. [back]
                                    2. Yamamoto, M.N. and A.W. Tagawa (2000). Hawai'i's native and exotic freshwater animals. Mutual Publishing, Honolulu, Hawaii. 200 p. [back]

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