Pethia
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Purple-headed barb ( Pethia nigrofasciata ) |
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Pethia is a South Asian genus of carp fish (Cyprinidae). Almost all species of the genus occur only in India, Sri Lanka or northern Myanmar . Only the sunspot barb ( Pethia stoliczkana ) extends the range of the genus to Thailand and Laos . The genus, which was only established in the summer of 2012, includes around 40 species, which,summarizedas the Puntius conchonius species group, belonged to the collective genus Puntius and before that partly to Barbus . The generic name was taken from "Pethia", the name for small carp fish in the Sinhala language spoken in Sri Lanka.
features
As adult fish, Pethia species normally reach a standard length of less than 5 cm, exceptionally up to 8 cm. Your body is high back and slightly flattened on the sides. Diagnostic features of the genus are 3 or 4 unbranched and 8 branched dorsal fin rays, the stiff and serrate last unbranched fin ray of the dorsal fin, 3 unbranched and 5 branched anal fin rays, simple gill rakes (pointed, not branched or flattened like a lamella), the broad infraorbital bone No. 3 ( Bones around the eyes), which partially overlaps the gill cover , the lack of free uroneuralia , 4 vertebrae with spinous processes (supraneurals) and 11 to 13 vertebrae in the abdomen and 13 to 16 in the caudal spine. The sideline is complete, broken, or, most often, incomplete with 19 to 24 scales on the sidelines. Rostral barbels are absent, mostly also the maxillary barbels; if the latter are present, they are tiny. The color drawing consists of a black spot on the base of the tail and also regularly of other black spots, dots or stripes on the sides of the body.
species
The following species are included in the genus Pethia (first description in brackets for species that were previously assigned to Puntius or Barbus ):
- Pethia arunachalensis Shangningam et al., 2020
- Pethia atra (Linthoingambi & Vishwanath, 2006)
- Pethia aurea Knight, 2013
- Bandula barbar ( Pethia bandula , (Kottelat & Pethiyagoda, 1991))
- Barbel ( Pethia conchonius , (Hamilton, 1822))
- Ceylon barbel ( Pethia cumingii , (Günther, 1868))
- Pethia didi (Kullander & Fang, 2005)
- Pethia erythromycter (Kullander, 2008)
- Pethia expletiforis Dishma & Vishwanath, 2013
- Spot dwarf bar ( pethia Gelius , (Hamilton, 1822))
- Pethia khugae (Linthoingambi & Vishwanath, 2007)
- Pethia longicauda Katwate et al., 2014
- Pethia lutea Katwate et al., 2014
- Pethia macrogramma (Kullander, 2008)
- Pethia manipurensis (Rema Devi & Viswanath, 2000)
- Pethia meingangbii (Arunkumar & Singh, 2003)
- Pethia melanomaculata (Deraniyagala, 1956)
- Pethia muvattupuzhaensis (Jameela, Beevi & Ramachandran, 2005)
- Pethia nankyweensis (Kullander, 2008)
- Pethia narayani (Hora, 1937)
- Pethia nigripinnis (Knight et al., 2012)
- Purple headed barbel ( Pethia nigrofasciata , (Günther, 1868)) ( type species )
- Pethia ornatus (Vishwanath & Laisram, 2004)
- Odessabarbe ( Pethia padamya , (Kullander & Britz, 2008))
- Dwarf mullet ( Pethia phutunio , (Hamilton, 1822))
- Pethia poiensis Shangningham & Vishwanath, 2018
- Pethia pookodensis (Mercy & Jacob, 2007)
- Pethia punctata (Day, 1865)
- Pethia reval (Meegaskumbura, Silva, Maduwage & Pethiyagoda, 2008)
- Pethia rutila Lalramliana et al., 2014
- Pethia sahit Katwate et al., 2018
- Pethia sanjaymoluri Katwate et al., 2016
- Pethia setnai (Chhapgar & Sane, 1992)
- Pethia shalynius (Yazdani & Talukdar, 1975)
- Sunspot barb ( Pethia stoliczkana , (Day, 1871))
- Pethia striata Atkore et al., 2015
- Pethia thelys (Kullander, 2008)
- Pethia tiantian (Kullander & Fang, 2005)
- Two-point barb ( Pethia ticto , (Hamilton, 1822))
- Puntius yuensis (Arunkumar & Tombi Singh, 2003)
literature
- Rohan Pethiyagoda, Madhava Meegaskumbura & Kalana Maduwage: A synopsis of the South Asian fishes referred to Puntius (Pisces: Cyprinidae). In: Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters. Volume 23, No. 1, (June) 2012, pp. 69-95.
Web links
- Pethia on Fishbase.org (English)
Remarks
- ^ Axel Zarske: Barbus. In: Claus Schaefer, Torsten Schröer (Hrsg.): The large lexicon of aquaristics. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-7497-9 , p. 125 ( Barbus ), 127 f. ( Barbus conchonius , B. cumingii Günther ), 130 ( B. gelius), 133 ( B. nigrofasciatus) and 136 ( B. stoliczkanus ).