New barb from western India
A new barb of the genus Pethia is described in the Journal of Threatened Taxa this week. Continue reading »
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A new barb of the genus Pethia is described in the Journal of Threatened Taxa this week. Continue reading »
Category: Blogs, Ichthyology | Tags: aquarium, barb, Pethia, Puntius, Western Ghats | Comment »
The iconic red-line torpedo barb and a related species are moved from the paraphyletic grouping Puntius to new genus Sahyadria in today’s issue of the Journal of Threatened Taxa. Continue reading »
Category: Blogs, Ichthyology | Tags: aquarium, denisonii, fishkeeping, Journal of Threatened Taxa, Puntius, Sahyadria | 2 comments »
Regular readers will remember that the species formerly known as Puntius fasciatus plus its closest relatives were placed into the new genus Dravidia a few months ago as part of Continue reading »
Category: Ichthyology, News | Tags: Dravidia, Haludaria, Pethiyagoda, Puntius, Zootaxa | Comment »
It is often said that a tiger never loses its stripes, but what about its name? Matt Ford investigates…
Cases in which a fish long thought to be one species turns out to represent something else are not especially unusual within the aquarium hobby. Notable examples include that of the ‘arulius barb’, for many years referred to as Puntius arulius (Jerdon 1849) but now confirmed as Dawkinsia tambraparniei (Silas 1954), and the ‘kuhli loach’, normally identified as Pangio kuhlii (Valenciennes 1846), a species which may never have been traded.
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Category: Articles, Freshwater Fishes | Tags: aquarium, Kottelat, Puntigrus, Puntius, Systomus, tiger barb | One comment »
A number of aquarium favourites have new scientific names following a recent study. Here’s a handy guide to the changes.
Barb fans beware; an extensive review of South Asian Puntius spp. published in the latest volume of ‘Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters’ has resulted in a large portion of the genus being split up and many species placed in different genera. Continue reading »
Category: Articles, Freshwater Fishes | Tags: barb, Dawkinsia, Dravidia, Pethia, Pethiyagoda, Puntius, Systomus | One comment »
The Asian cyprinid genus Puntius is partially revised by Rohan Pethiyagoda, Madhava Meegaskumbura, and Kalana Maduwage in the latest volume of the journal ‘Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters‘.
It contains many popular aquarium fishes and has been considered a ‘catch-all’ polyphyletic assemblage for a number of years with over 220 nominal members of which around 120 are currently valid. They’re distributed throughout tropical South and Southeast Asia but the new study is focussed on those species native to the sub-Himalayan region of South Asia. Continue reading »
Category: Ichthyology, News | Tags: barb, Dawkinsia, Dravidia, Pethia, Pethiyagoda, Puntius, Systomus | 2 comments »
A new ‘tiger barb’, Systomus navjotsodhii, is described by prominent ichthyologist Dr. Heok Hui Tan in the latest supplement of the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, the specific name chosen in honour of the late Professor Navjot S. Sodhi.
Category: New Species, News | Tags: aquarium, Borneo, fish, new species, Puntius, Raffles, Systomus, tiger barb | One comment »
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Barbodes semifasciolatus – Golden Barb* (Barbus sachsii, Puntius schuberti)
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