Mylopharyngodon
| Mylopharyngodon Temporal range: Middle Miocene - Recent | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Xenocyprididae |
| Genus: | Mylopharyngodon W. K. H. Peters, 1881 |
| Type species | |
| Leuciscus aethiops Basilewsky, 1855 | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
Mylopharyngodon is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies. There is one extant and one extinct species in this genus.