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This species was considered a colour form of the closely-related B. imbellis and commonly-referred to as 'black imbellis' prior to description due to its blackish opercle and body. It's also previously been confused with B. splendens due to the colour of the vertical opercular bars which tend to be reddish (but may also be pale red, greenish-silvery, plain silvery or without colour in some populations), but DNA analysis has demonstrated it...

This potentially-undescribed species first became available in 2002, and males and females were marketed as 'Danio sp. hikari yellow' and 'D. sp. hikari blue', respectively. Subsequent DNA testing in the United States revealed them to be the same species and genetically distinct from the very similar B. kerri. It can be told apart as the central body (P) stripe always extends into the caudal fin whereas in B. kerri it terminates at the caudal peduncle. Only a single population of B. kerri was sampled in the stu...