Tanichthys micagemmae
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| White Cloud Mountain Minnow Conservation status: Secure | ||||||||||||||
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| Tanichthys micagemmae Freyhof & Herder, 2001 |
Tanichthys micagemmae is a species of freshwater fish. It is a member of the carp family (family Cyprinidae) of order Cypriniformes. It was only discovered in 2001, in a tributary of the River Ben Hai in Quang Binh province, Vietnam.
It is similar in appearance to the White Cloud Mountain minnow (T. albonubes) a commonly sold freshwater aquarium fish. T. micagemmae can be distinguished from its much more common cousin primarily by the lighter coloration of its lower body and by the centered position of its lateral stipes, compared with a position well above the middle in T. albonubes.
The species has no documented English-language common name, although it is known in Finnish as juovakardinaalikala (striped cardinal fish), kardinaalikala (cardinal fish) being the White Cloud Mountain minnow.