That was in 1920. The Japanese who discovered the fish gave it a Japanese name, oshima, and a Latin one, Varicorhinus alticorpus, classifying it under the genus Cyprinidae. It was not until 1954 that it acquired its formal name in Chinese, the "tall-body" ku fish.
一九二○年日本人首次發現高身魚，僅將它作了分類（屬鯉科），並瞭解它大致的分佈範圍，這時候的高身魚只有英文學名 Varicorhinus alticorpus，日文叫「歐虛瑪」（OSHIMA），直到一九五四年，才有了正式的中文學名。