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Decorus
Genus of fishes
Decorus is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish found in China and India. This genus was split from Bangana in 2019.
The generic name is Latin for "beautiful" and is tautonymous with the type species.
01Species
There are currently five recognized species in this genus.
- Decorus decorus (Peters, 1881)
- Decorus lemassoni Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936)
- Decorus rendahli (Kimura, 1934)
- Decorus tungting (Nichols, 1925)
- Decorus xanthogenys (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936)
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