Culter (genus)
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Culter is a genus of cyprinid
fish
, consisting of five species. The name is derived from the Latin word culter, meaning "knife".
Cyprinid
The family Cyprinidae, from the Ancient Greek kyprînos , consists of the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives . Commonly called the carp family or the minnow family, its members are also known as cyprinids...
fish
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
, consisting of five species. The name is derived from the Latin word culter, meaning "knife".
Species
- Culter alburnusCulter alburnusCulter alburnus is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Culter....
Basilewsky, 1855 - Culter flavipinnis Tirant, 1883
- Culter oxycephaloidesCulter oxycephaloidesCulter oxycephaloides is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Culter....
Kreyenberg & Pappenheim, 1908 - Culter recurvicepsCulter recurvicepsCulter recurviceps is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Culter....
(J. RichardsonJohn Richardson (naturalist)Sir John Richardson was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of...
, 1846)