Puntius aphya

Puntius aphya
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Barbinae
Genus:	Puntius
Species:	P. aphya
Binomial name
	Puntius aphya; (Günther, 1868)[1]
Synonyms
	Barbus aphya Günther, 1868;

Puntius aphya is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Puntius native to freshwater habitats in Java, Indonesia.[1] It is only known from a single old specimen,[1] but its validity is questionable and recent authorities treat it as a synonym of Leptobarbus hoevenii.[2]

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Puntius aphya" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
Kottelat, M. (2013). The Fishes of the Inland Waters of Southeast Asia: A Catalogue and Core Bibliography of the Fishes Known to Occur in Freshwaters, Mangroves and Estuaries. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2013, Supplement No. 27: 1–663.

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[fishbase-1] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Puntius aphya" in FishBase. April 2006 version.

[2] Kottelat, M. (2013). The Fishes of the Inland Waters of Southeast Asia: A Catalogue and Core Bibliography of the Fishes Known to Occur in Freshwaters, Mangroves and Estuaries. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2013, Supplement No. 27: 1–663.