Raiamas

Raiamas
Trout barb (Raiamas bola)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Danioninae
Genus:	Raiamas D. S. Jordan, 1919
Type species
Cyprinus bola F. Hamilton, 1822
Species
17, see text.

Raiamas is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fishes. The majority of the species are from Africa, but R. bola and R. guttatus are from South and Southeast Asia.

Species

• Raiamas ansorgii (Boulenger, 1910)
• Raiamas batesii (Boulenger, 1914)
• Raiamas bola (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Trout barb)
• Raiamas buchholzi (W. K. H. Peters, 1876)
• Raiamas christyi (Boulenger, 1920) (Coppernose barb)
• Raiamas guttatus (F. Day, 1870) (Burmese trout)
• Raiamas intermedius (Boulenger, 1915)
• Raiamas kheeli Stiassny, Schelly & Schliewen, 2006
• Raiamas levequei Howes & Teugels, 1989
• Raiamas longirostris (Boulenger, 1902)
• Raiamas moorii (Boulenger, 1900) (Lake Rukwa minnow)
• Raiamas nigeriensis (Daget, 1959)
• Raiamas salmolucius (Nichols & Griscom, 1917)
• Raiamas scarciensis Howes & Teugels, 1989
• Raiamas senegalensis (Steindachner, 1870) (Silver fish)
• Raiamas shariensis (Fowler, 1949)
• Raiamas steindachneri (Pellegrin, 1908)

References

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Raiamas". FishBase. August 2011 version.