Dawkinsia
| Dawkinsia | |
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| Dawkinsia exclamatio | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Barbinae |
| Genus: | Dawkinsia Pethiyagoda, Meegaskumbura & Maduwage, 2012 |
| Type species | |
| Leuciscus filamentosus Valenciennes, 1844
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| Synonyms | |
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Sahyadria | |
Dawkinsia is a genus of cyprinid fishes from freshwater in South India and Sri Lanka. It was split off (i.e., reclassified) from genus Puntius in 2012.[1]
Etymology
[edit]Dawkinsia is named after the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in recognition of his "contribution to the public understanding of science, particularly, of evolutionary science".[2][1]: p.80 Dawkins describes this as "a great honour".[3]
Description
[edit]Adults typically measure 8–12 cm (3.1–4.7 in) SL. They do not have rostral barbels but might have maxillary barbels. Juveniles have a colour pattern consisting of three black bars on body; this persists to adult stage in some species. Adults have a black, horizontally elongate blotch on the caudal peduncle.[1]: p.80
Species
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There are currently fifteen recognized species in this genus:[4]
- Dawkinsia apsara (Katwate, Marcus Knight, Anoop, Raghavan & Dahanukar, 2020) (mascara barb)
- Dawkinsia arulius (Jerdon, 1849) (Arulius barb)
- Dawkinsia assimilis (Jerdon, 1849)
- Dawkinsia austellus Katwate, Marcus Knight, Anoop, Raghavan & Dahanukar, 2020 (Austellus barb)
- Dawkinsia chalakkudiensis (Menon, Rema Devi & Thobias, 1999)
- Dawkinsia crassa Katwate, Marcus Knight, Anoop, Raghavan & Dahanukar, 2020 (Rounded filament barb)
- Dawkinsia denisonii (F. Day, 1865) (Denison barb; red line torpedo barb)
- Dawkinsia exclamatio (Pethiyagoda & Kottelat, 2005)
- Dawkinsia filamentosa (Valenciennes, 1844) (Blackspot/Filament barb)
- Dawkinsia rohani (Rema Devi, Indra & Knight, 2010)
- Dawkinsia rubrotincta (Jerdon, 1849)
- Dawkinsia singhala (Duncker, 1912)
- Dawkinsia srilankensis (Senanayake, 1985) (Blotched filamented barb)
- Dawkinsia tambraparniei (Silas, 1954)
- Dawkinsia uttara Katwate, Apte & Raghavan, 2020[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Rohan Pethiyagoda, R.; Meegaskumbura, M. & Maduwage, K. (2012). "A synopsis of the South Asian fishes referred to Puntius (Pisces: Cyprinidae)" (PDF). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 23 (1): 69–95.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara. "Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily SMILIOGASTRINAE Bleeker 1863 (Small Barbs)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- ^ Bethan Jinkinson (19 July 2012). "Ten species named after famous people". BBC News. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Dawkinsia in FishBase. July 2024 version.
- ^ Unmesh Katwate; Deepak Apte; Rajeev Raghavan (2020). "Dawkinsia uttara, a new species of filament barb (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Western Ghats of India". Vertebrate Zoology. 70 (4): 717–730.