Badis (genus)
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| Badis badis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Badidae |
| Genus: | Badis Bleeker, 1854 |
Badis is a genus of fish in the family Badidae. These fishes live in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Bhutan, Laos and Pakistan.
Fish of this genus have a sharp spine on the opercle, soft and spinous parts of the dorsal fin contiguous, three spines in the anal fin, tubed pores in the lateral line, villiform teeth, and a rounded tail fin.[1]
Species
There are currently 17 recognized species in this genus:
- Badis assamensis C. G. E. Ahl, 1937
- Badis badis F. Hamilton, 1822 (Badis)
- Badis blosyrus S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
- Badis britzi Dahanukar, Kumkar, Katwate & Raghavan, 2015 [2]
- Badis chittagongis S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
- Badis corycaeus S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
- Badis dibruensis Geetakumari & Vishwanath, 2010
- Badis ferrarisi S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
- Badis juergenschmidti I. Schindler & Linke, 2010
- Badis kanabos S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
- Badis khwae S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
- Badis kyar S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
- Badis pyema S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
- Badis ruber Schreitmüller, 1923
- Badis siamensis Klausewitz, 1957
- Badis singenensis Geetakumari & Kadu, 2011 [1]
- Badis tuivaiei Vishwanath & Shanta, 2004
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Geetakumari, K. & Kadu, K. (2011): Badis singenensis, a new fish species (Teleostei: Badidae) from Singen River, Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 3 (9): 2085-2089.
- ↑ Dahanukar, N., Kumkar, P., Katwate, U. & Raghavan, R. (2015): Badis britzi, a new percomorph fish (Teleostei: Badidae) from the Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa, 3941 (3): 429–436.