Genus

Haludaria

Species: 1
Photographed: 1 of 1
Difficulty rated: 1 of 1

Where the name comes fromEdit

named for 'Haludar, a Bengal youth’ who ca 1797 was ‘the artist who made the exquisite illustrations of "Gangetic Fishes" depicted in Francis Hamilton’s (1822) book on the fishes of the Ganges River (see Hora, 1931), a founder work in Indian ichthyology.' fasciata: from the Latin fascia, meaning 'band, strip'.

This male specimen with four dark body bars closely resembles the fish in Jerdon's original description.

Haludaria fasciataMelon Barb

Jerdon, 1849

The melon barb, Haludaria fasciata, is a small cyprinid endemic to the Western Ghats of southern India, in Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. It exists in a number of colour forms, and it is undecided whether they are geographical variants or a complex of closely-related species. Also traded as the 'ember barb', 'banded barb' and 'black spot barb', it is relatively peaceful and hardy, but a vigorous feeder that may outcompete slower or more timid fishes.

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