The Amur minnow or Lagowski's minnow (Rhynchocypris lagowskii) is an Asian species of small freshwater cyprinid fish.[1] It is found from the Lena and Amur rivers in the north to the Yangtze in China in the south, and in Japan.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Pseudaspininae |
| Genus: | Rhynchocypris |
| Species: | R. lagowskii
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| Rhynchocypris lagowskii (Dybowski, 1869)
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References edit
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2014). "Rhynchocypris lagowskii" in FishBase. November 2014 version.
- ^ Nishida, Kazuya; Koizumi, Noriyuki; Satoh, Toshiyuki; Senga, Yutaro; Takemura, Takeshi; Watabe, Keiji; Mori, Atsushi (2015). "Influence of the domestic alien fish Rhynchocypris oxycephalus invasion on the distribution of the closely related native fish R. lagowskii in the Tama River Basin, Japan". Landscape and Ecological Engineering. 11: 169–176. doi:10.1007/s11355-014-0257-8. S2CID 10488199.
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