Metzia Explained

Metzia is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies. The fishes in this genus are found in Asia. The genus is named in honor of the American ichthyologist Charles William Metz of Stanford University.^[1]

Species

These are the currently recognized species in this genus:

• Metzia alba (T. T. Nguyen, 1991)
• Metzia bounthobi Shibukawa, Phousavanh, Phongsa & Iwata, 2012
• Metzia formosae (Ōshima, 1920)
• Metzia hautus (T. T. Nguyen, 1991)
• Metzia lineata (Pellegrin, 1907)
• Metzia longinasus X. Gan, J. H. Lan & E. Zhang, 2009
• Metzia mesembrinum (D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1902)
• Metzia parva W. Luo, J. P. Sullivan, H. T. Zhao & Z. G. Peng, 2015

Notes and References

1. Web site: Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily XENOCYPRIDINAE . 10 December 2017 . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . 28 October 2016 . 4 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220504083757/https://etyfish.org/cypriniformes9/ . dead .