Genus Paedocypris is now in a new family

Fishes from the genus Paedocypris which contained the world’s smallest free living vertebrate is now (or, rather “will be” soon) placed in the new family, Paedocyprinidae. Previously, the three known fishes were placed in family Cyprinidae, has recently being removed to a newly created family. More on the family Paedocyprinidae can be read from “Mayden, R.L., Chen, W-J., The world’s smallest vertebrate species of the Genus Paedocypris: A new family of freshwater fishes and the sister group to the world’s most diverse clade of freshwater fishes (Teleostei: Cypriniformes), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2010), doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.04.008”