Taxonomy

Formosania stigmata (Nichols, 1926)

The genus Formosania Oshima, 1919 currently comprises seven valid species. You can find the species tree below:

 

• Order Cypriniformes
• Family Balitoridae
• Genus Formosania Oshima, 1919
• Species/Subspecies
• Formosania chenyiyui (Zheng, 1991)
• Formosania davidi (Sauvage, 1878)
• Formosania fascicauda (Nichols, 1926)
• Formosania lacustre (Steindachner, 1908)
• Formosania paucisquama (Zheng, 1981)
• Formosania stigmata (Nichols, 1926)
• Formosania tinkhami (Herre, 1934)

Marco Endruweit, September 2006, classification tree updated 2008-12-10, updated 2009-01-05

The pictures show a specimen preserved in alcohol out of the Shanghai Fisheries University collection. The specimen carries the number A002761. It has been collected in 1977 in the Chinese Fujian Province, which is located opposite of Taiwan on the coast of the Chinese mainland.