Badis_(fish)

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Badis (fish)

Genus of fishes

Badis is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Badidae found in South Asia, Southeast Asia and China. These species have a sharp spine on the opercle, soft and spinous parts of the dorsal fin contiguous, three spines in the anal fin, tubed pores in the lateral line, villiform teeth and a rounded caudal fin.[2] In addition, they differ from the related genus Dario by being larger and displaying more involved parental care.[3]

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Species

There are currently 28 recognized species in this genus,[4] but a comprehensive taxonomic review is necessary as some of the described species are inseparable based on available data.[5]

References

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    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Badis". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  2. [2]
    Geetakumari, K. & Kadu, K. (2011): Badis singenensis, a new fish species (Teleostei: Badidae) from Singen River, Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine Journal of Threatened Taxa, 3 (9): 2085-2089.
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    SeriouslyFish: Badis badis. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
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    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Badis in FishBase. March 2024 version.
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    Kullander, S., Nóren, M., Rahman, M.M. & Mollah, A.R. (2019). Chameleonfishes in Bangladesh: hipshot taxonomy, sibling species, elusive species, and limits of species delimitation (Teleostei: Badidae). Zootaxa 4586(2). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4586.2.7
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    Valdesalici, S. & van der Voort, S. (2015): Four new species of the Indo-Burmese genus Badis from West Bengal, India (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Badidae). Zootaxa, 3985 (3): 391–408.
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    Dahanukar, N., Kumkar, P., Katwate, U. & Raghavan, R. (2015): Badis britzi, a new percomorph fish (Teleostei: Badidae) from the Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa, 3941 (3): 429–436.
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    Ramliana L, Lalronunga S, Singh M (2021) Badis kaladanensis, a new fish species (Teleostei: Badidae) from Mizoram, northeast India. PLoS ONE 16(7): e0246466. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246466
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    Valdesalici, S. & van der Voort, S. (2015): Badis laspiophilus, a new miniature addition to the ichthyofauna of West Bengal, north-eastern India, with observations on its ecology and preliminary notes on its ethology (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Badidae). Zootaxa, 3986 (2): 193–200.
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    JAYASIMHAN PRAVEENRAJ (September 2023). "Badis limaakumi, a new species of badid fish from Nagaland, Northeast India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae)". Zootaxa. 5351 (3). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5351.3.5.
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    "New fish species found in Milak river". Nagaland Post. 2023-09-29. Retrieved 2023-10-01.
  12. [12]
    Basumatary, S., Choudhury, H., Baishya, R.A., Sarma, D. & Vishwanath, W. (2016): Badis pancharatnaensis, a new percoid fish species from Brahmaputra River drainage, Assam, India (Teleostei: Badidae). Vertebrate Zoology, 66 (2): 151-156.


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