Osteobrama

<i>Osteobrama</i>

Osteobrama

Genus of fishes

Osteobrama is a genus of cyprinid fish found in southern Asia consisting of eight species. The name is derived from the Greek word osteon, meaning "bone", and the Old French word breme, a type of freshwater fish.

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Species

There are 10 valid species in the genus:[2][3]

Fishbase formerly regarded O. bhimensis as a synonym of O. vigorsii, and also treats the former subspecies of O. cotio as distinct species: O. cunma and O. peninsularis,[5][6] which is not supported by ITIS[7] or WoRMS.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Bailly, Nicolas (2018). "Osteobrama Heckel, 1843". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  2. [2]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Osteobrama in FishBase. March 2024 version.
  3. [3]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Osteobrama". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  4. [4]
    BUNGDON SHANGNINGAM; SHIBANANDA RATH; ASHA KIRAN TUDU; LAISHRAM KOSYGIN (10 January 2020). "A new species of Osteobrama (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Mahanadi River, India with a note on the validity of O. dayi". Zootaxa. 4722 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4722.1.6.
  5. [5]
    Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2017). "Osteobrama cotio" in FishBase. December 2017 version.
  6. [6]
    Manorama Maisnam; Suresh Chandra; Kuldeep K. Lal; Rajeev K. Singh; Vindhya Mohindra (2017). "Characterization of threatened endemic fish Osteobrama belangeri (Valenciennes, 1844) and related species from North-East India based on morphological and molecular analysis". Mitochondrial DNA Part A. 29 (6): 919–932. doi:10.1080/24701394.2017.1389914. PMID 29092681. S2CID 205974731.
  7. [7]
    "Osteobrama". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 June 2007.


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