Dawkinsia
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| 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 | |
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.
Etymology
Dawkinsia is named after the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in recognition of his "contribution to the public understanding of science, particularly, of evolutionary science".: p.80 Dawkins describes this as "a great honour".
Description
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.: p.80
Species
Dawkinsia apsara
There are currently eleven recognized species in this genus:
- Dawkinsia apsara (Katwate, Marcus Knight, Anoop, Raghavan & Dahanukar, 2020) (mascara barb)
- Dawkinsia arulius (Jerdon, 1849) (Arulius barb)
- Dawkinsia assimilis (Jerdon, 1849)
- Dawkinsia exclamatio (Pethiyagoda & Kottelat, 2005)
- Dawkinsia filamentosa (Valenciennes, 1844) (Blackspot/Filament barb)
- Dawkinsia rohani (Rema Devi, Indra & Knight, 2010)
- Dawkinsia rubrotinctus (Jerdon, 1849)
- Dawkinsia singhala (Duncker, 1912)
- Dawkinsia srilankensis (Senanayake, 1985) (Blotched filamented barb)
- Dawkinsia tambraparniei (Silas, 1954)
- Dawkinsia uttara (Unmesh Katwate, Deepak Apte, Rajeev Raghavan 2020)
References
- ^ 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.
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- ^ Bethan Jinkinson (19 July 2012). "Ten species named after famous people". BBC News. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). Species of Dawkinsia in FishBase. August 2015 version.
- ^ Unmesh Katwate, Deepak Apte, Rajeev Raghavan, Dawkinsia uttara, a new species of filament barb (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Western Ghats of India, Vertibrate Zoology, 70(4): 717– 730, 2020
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