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<h2 id="species">Species</h2> <p>This genus and <i><a href="/facts/Acheilognathus/LJDQLggx">Acheilognathus</a></i> have a convoluted <a href="/facts/Taxonomy_(biology)/Qkg8wuyw">taxonomic</a> history, one being at times included in the other. They are now considered separate, but some species formerly in <i>Rhodeus</i> are now in <i>Acheilognathus</i>. </p><p>These are the currently recognized species in this genus:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_albomarginatus/sbHr41r0">Rhodeus albomarginatus</a></i> F. Li & Arai, 2014</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_amarus/py6Q3E7o">Rhodeus amarus</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Marcus_Elieser_Bloch/QmJ7aoJq">Bloch</a>, 1782) (European bitterling)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_amurensis/3ryL4gHu">Rhodeus amurensis</a></i> Vronsky, 1967</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_atremius/lMaLnLjY">Rhodeus atremius</a></i> (<a href="/facts/David_Starr_Jordan/qLNo5UIR">D. S. Jordan</a> & <a href="/facts/William_Francis_Thompson_(biologist)/BVwJtTlW">W. F. Thompson</a>, 1914) (Kyushu bitterling)</li> <li><i>Rhodeus caspius</i> Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh, Japoshvili, Eagderi, Abbasi & Mousavi-Sabet, 2020</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_colchicus/BcqqvUmH">Rhodeus colchicus</a></i> Bogutskaya & Komlev, 2001 (Georgian bitterling)</li> <li><i>Rhodeus cyanorostris</i> F. Li, T.-Y. Liao & Arai, 2020</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_fangi/bvzqNUyH">Rhodeus fangi</a></i> (Miao, 1934)</li> <li><i>Rhodeus flaviventris</i> F. Li, Arai & T.-Y.Liao, 2020</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_haradai/dNHK1x0J">Rhodeus haradai</a></i> Arai, N. Suzuki & S. C. Shen, 1990</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_hondae/Ty62V3K4">Rhodeus hondae</a></i> (<a href="/facts/David_Starr_Jordan/qLNo5UIR">D. S. Jordan</a> & Metz, 1913).</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_laoensis/PQsFLHd1">Rhodeus laoensis</a></i> <a href="/facts/Maurice_Kottelat/J5lVFclX">Kottelat</a>, A. Doi & Musikasinthorn, 1998</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_lighti/sfY2rN5I">Rhodeus lighti</a></i> (H. W. Wu, 1931) (Light's bitterling)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_mantschuricus/0uR0hceH">Rhodeus mantschuricus</a></i> <a href="/facts/Tamezo_Mori/v5zL6r6y">T. Mori</a>, 1934 (Amur bitterling)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_meridionalis/0v3msluB">Rhodeus meridionalis</a></i> <a href="/facts/Stanko_Karaman/vIDSfl02">S. L. Karaman</a>, 1924 (Vardar bitterling)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_monguonensis/SF0tgRTL">Rhodeus monguonensis</a></i> G. L. Li, 1989</li> <li><i>Rhodeus nigrodorsalis</i> Li, Liao & Arai, 2020</li> <li><i>Rhodeus notatus</i> <a href="/facts/John_Treadwell_Nichols/m3KgkrpI">Nichols</a>, 1929</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_ocellatus/WDqKQbhz">Rhodeus ocellatus</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Rudolf_Kner/C4Y9kTWH">Kner</a>, 1866) (Rosy bitterling)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_pseudosericeus/RwThJRK2">Rhodeus pseudosericeus</a></i> Arai, S. R. Jeon & Ueda, 2001</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_rheinardti/NJ06sha2">Rhodeus rheinardti</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Gilbert_Tirant/z6uCcj1W">Tirant</a>, 1883)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_sciosemus/sgtGglT5">Rhodeus sciosemus</a></i> (D.S. Jordan & W. F. Thompson, 1914)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_sericeus/0uR0hceH">Rhodeus sericeus</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Peter_Simon_Pallas/IkTINExs">Pallas</a>, 1776) (Amur bitterling)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_shitaiensis/UTS4ES75">Rhodeus shitaiensis</a></i> F. Li & Arai, 2011</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_sinensis/kTdpRAkS">Rhodeus sinensis</a></i> <a href="/facts/Albert_G%C3%BCnther/SQzexVaS">Günther</a>, 1868</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_smithii/yFWHmC0v">Rhodeus smithii</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Charles_Tate_Regan/lKATc9x4">Regan</a>, 1908)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_spinalis/xc5s5lXs">Rhodeus spinalis</a></i> <a href="/facts/Masamitsu_%C5%8Cshima/ld6fvvBp">Ōshima</a>, 1926</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_suigensis/l30QChnN">Rhodeus suigensis</a></i> T. Mori, 1935</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodeus_uyekii/jo6nxwJ4">Rhodeus uyekii</a></i> T. Mori, 1935</li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rhodeus. <ul><li><a href="/facts/Hugh_Chisholm/2vWblUBe">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Bitterling">"Bitterling" </a>. <i><a href="/facts/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition/mPElbCRY">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 13, 14.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080821071303/http://fisc.er.usgs.gov/Carp_ID/html/rhodeus_sericeus.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20080821071303/http://fisc.er.usgs.gov/Carp_ID/html/rhodeus_sericeus.html</a></li> <li>McMillan, Donald B. (2007). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hEzEyWGXW_AC&pg=PA1">"1.1 Introduction"</a>. <i>Fish Histology: Female Reproductive Systems</i>. Springer. p. 1. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-4020-5715-1.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Deceptive Bitterling". Time. October 12, 1936. Archived from the original on December 15, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-16. Not quite two years ago physicians and prospective parents welcomed the news that a small, carp-like fish could tell whether or not a woman was going to have a baby ... The bitterling lost her standing and the doe rabbit and mouse were reinstated as nature's best indicators of human pregnancy. But obstetricians Kanter and Klawans pursued the matter with another research mate, physiologist Broda Otto Barnes, and secured further results which they detailed in Science last week. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081215102553/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,848651,00.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20081215102553/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,848651,00.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Barnes, B. O.; Kanter, A. E.; Klawans, A. H. (1936). "Bitterling Ovipositor Lengthening Produced By Adrenal Extracts". Science. 84 (2179): 310. doi:10.1126/science.84.2179.310-a. PMID 17837041. <a href="/wiki/Science_(journal)" target="_blank">/wiki/Science_(journal)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Rhodeus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 February 2025. <a href="/wiki/William_N._Eschmeyer" target="_blank">/wiki/William_N._Eschmeyer</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>