Boraras
Boraras is a small genus of Asian cyprinid fishes.
| Boraras | |
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| least rasbora, (Boraras urophthalmoides) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Danioninae |
| Genus: | Boraras Kottelat & Vidthayanon, 1993[1] |
| Species | |
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6, see text. | |
Species
- Boraras brigittae (D. Vogt, 1978) (Chili rasbora, Mosquito rasbora)
- Boraras maculatus (Duncker, 1904) (Dwarf rasbora)
- Boraras merah (Kottelat, 1991) (Phoenix rasbora)
- Boraras micros Kottelat & Vidthayanon, 1993
- Boraras naevus Conway & Kottelat, 2011 (Strawberry rasbora)
- Boraras urophthalmoides (Kottelat, 1991) (Least rasbora, Exclamation point rasbora)
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Boraras in FishBase. August 2011 version.
- Conway, K.W.; Kottelat, M. 2011: Boraras naevus, a new species of miniature and sexually dichromatic freshwater fish from peninsular Thailand (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa, 3002: 45–51. Preview PDF
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