Sundadanio
| Sundadanio | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Genus: | Sundadanio Kottelat & K. E. Witte, 1999 |
| Type species | |
| Rasbora axelrodi Brittan, 1976 | |
Sundadanio is a genus of cyprinid fishes from freshwater habitats, typically peat swamps and streams, in Borneo and Sumatra (as well as nearby smaller islands) in southeast Asia. They are very small, but still larger than their close relatives Paedocypris.[1]
Species
There are currently eight recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Sundadanio atomus Conway, Kottelat & H. H. Tan, 2011
- Sundadanio axelrodi (Brittan, 1976)
- Sundadanio echinus Conway, Kottelat & H. H. Tan, 2011
- Sundadanio gargula Conway, Kottelat & H. H. Tan, 2011
- Sundadanio goblinus Conway, Kottelat & H. H. Tan, 2011
- Sundadanio margarition Conway, Kottelat & H. H. Tan, 2011
- Sundadanio retiarius Conway, Kottelat & H. H. Tan, 2011
- Sundadanio rubellus Conway, Kottelat & H. H. Tan, 2011
References
- ↑ Rüber, Lukas; Kottelat, Maurice; Tan, Heok Hui; Ng, Peter KL; Britz, Ralf (2007). "Evolution of miniaturization and the phylogenetic position of Paedocypris, comprising the world's smallest vertebrate". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7: 1–10. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-38. PMC 1838906
. PMID 17355618. - ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Sundadanio in FishBase. February 2013 version.
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