Tokyo bitterling

Taxobox
name = Tokyo bitterling
status = VU | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Cypriniformes
familia = Cyprinidae
genus = "Tanakia"
species = "T. tanago"
binomial = "Tanakia tanago"
binomial_authority = (Tanaka, 1909)

The Tokyo bitterling, "Tanakia tanago", is a temperate freshwater fish belonging to the Acheilognathinae sub-family of the Cyprinidae family. It originates in the Kantō Mountains of Japan. It was originally described as "Rhodeus tanago" by Tanaka in 1990. The fish reaches a size of up to 5.0 centimetres (2.0 in).

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