Rasboroides

Rasboroides
	Rasboroides nigromarginatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Danioninae
Genus:	Rasboroides; Brittan, 1954
Type species
	Rasbora vaterifloris; Deraniyagala, 1930

Rasboroides is a genus of small cyprinid fishes endemic to Sri Lanka.^[1] They are found in small, slow-flowing and shaded streams in the southwestern part of the island.^[2] They are essentially restricted to lowlands, although one introduced population occurs at an altitude of 980 m (3,220 ft).^[3] They are calm, social and attractively colored fish that sometimes are kept in aquariums.^[3]

Species

Historically, there was only a single recognized species in this genus, R. vaterifloris, but in a review in 2013 four species were recognized,^[2] and this is followed by FishBase.^[1] A comprehensive review in 2018 disputed this and only recognized two species, R. pallidus and R. vaterifloris (the other two considered junior synonyms).^[3]


Species	Common Name	Image
Rasboroides nigromarginatus (Meinken, 1957)
Rasboroides pallidus Deraniyagala, 1958
Rasboroides rohani Batuwita, M. de Silva & Edirisinghe, 2013^[2]
Rasboroides vaterifloris (Deraniyagala, 1930)	Pearly rasbora

References

^ ^a ^b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Rasboroides". FishBase. October 2013 version.
^ ^a ^b ^c Batuwita, S., Silva, M.d. & Edirisinghe, U. (2013): A review of the danionine genera Rasboroides and Horadandia (Pisces: Cyprinidae), with description of a new species from Sri Lanka. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (2): 121-140.
^ ^a ^b ^c Sudasinghe, H., J. Herath, R. Pethiyagoda and M. Meegaskumbura. (2018). Undocumented Translocations Spawn Taxonomic Inflation in Sri Lankan Fire Rasboras (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae). PeerJ. 6:e6084. doi:10.7717/peerj.6084

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[FishBase-1] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Rasboroides". FishBase. October 2013 version.

[Batuwita2013-2] Batuwita, S., Silva, M.d. & Edirisinghe, U. (2013): A review of the danionine genera Rasboroides and Horadandia (Pisces: Cyprinidae), with description of a new species from Sri Lanka. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (2): 121-140.

[Sudasinghe2018-3] Sudasinghe, H., J. Herath, R. Pethiyagoda and M. Meegaskumbura. (2018). Undocumented Translocations Spawn Taxonomic Inflation in Sri Lankan Fire Rasboras (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae). PeerJ. 6:e6084. doi:10.7717/peerj.6084

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