Rasbora
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| Rasbora daniconius | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Genus: | Rasbora Bleeker, 1860 |
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A rasbora is a member of a group of small minnow-type fish in the family Cyprinidae (carps). Fish from genera such as Boraras, Microrasbora, Rasbora and Trigonostigma are commonly referred to as rasboras. The genus Microrasbora may be more closely related to danios than other genera in this group while the genera Boraras and Trignonstigma were split from Rasbora. Currently the genus Rasbora remains the largest one, containing around 70 species, which can be found in Southeast Asia and Africa.
Most of the rasboras are small, up to 10 cm long. A number of species are regularly kept in aquariums; the most common of these is the harlequin rasbora (Trigonostigma heteromorpha).
In a 2007 analysis, Rasbora was found to not be a monophyletic assemblage; however, both Boraras and Trigonostigma were determined to be monophyletic.[1]
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[edit] Species, listed in order of scientific name within genus
For Microrasbora, see Danionin.
[edit] Rasbora
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- Danios - closely related fish to the rasboras
[edit] References
- Valid species list of genus Rasbora on FishBase.
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Rasbora in FishBase. August 2011 version.
- ^ Mayden, Richard L.; Tang, Kevin L.; Conway, Kevin W.; Freyhof, Jörg; Chamberlain, Sarah; Haskins, Miranda; Schneider, Leah; Sudkamp, Mitchell; Wood Robert M.; Agnew, Mary; Bufalino, Angelo; Sulaiman, Zohrah; Miya, Masaki; Saitoh, Kenji; He, Shunping (2007). "Phylogenetic relationships of Danio within the order Cypriniformes: a framework for comparative and evolutionary studies of a model species". J. Exp. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 308B (1): 1–13. doi:10.1002/jez.b.21130. PMID 17171697.
- ^ Kottelat, M. & Tan, H.H. (2011): Rasbora atranus, a new species of fish from central Borneo (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 22 (3): 215-220.
