Hypophthalmichthys nobilis (Richardson)

Chan, Jeffery C. F., Tsang, Alphonse H. F., Yau, Sze-man, Hui, Tommy C. H., Lau, Anthony, Tan, Heok Hui, Low, Bi Wei, Dudgeon, David & Liew, Jia Huan, 2023, The non-native freshwater fishes of Hong Kong: diversity, distributions, and origins, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 71, pp. 128-168 : 137

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2023-0012
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7815763
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scientific name	Hypophthalmichthys nobilis (Richardson)
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Hypophthalmichthys nobilis (Richardson) View in CoL View at ENA

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Remarks. Actively farmed in aquaculture ponds in the New Territories. It is sometimes released during Buddhist rituals, presumably after having been purchased from wet markets.

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Fig. 13. Hypophthalmichthys nobilis, aquarium trade, photographed by Heok Hui Tan.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Cypriniformes
Family	Cyprinidae
Genus	Hypophthalmichthys

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