Abbottina is a genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gobionidae, the gudgeons. The fishes in this genus occur in eastern Asia (China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam). The genus was named for the American zoologist James Fisher Abbott, student at Stanford University and later professor of English at Naval Academy Etajima and of zoology at Washington University in St. Louis.Jordan, David Starr & H.W.Fowler. A review of the cyprinoid fishes of Japan. 1903. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. volume 26. page 835.Jordan, David Starr Jordan. Days of a Man. 1922. volume 2. pages 37-38
Species These are the currently recognized species in this genus: Abbottina binhi Nguyễn, 2001 Abbottina lalinensis Z.-H. Huang & Z.-P. Li, 1995 Abbottina rivularis (Basilewsky, 1855) - Chinese false gudgeon
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