Rasbora johannae
Rasbora johannae is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Rasbora. It is endemic to Kalimantan. This species reaches a length of 3.8 cm (1.5 in).
| Rasbora johannae | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Danioninae |
| Genus: | Rasbora |
| Species: | R. johannae |
| Binomial name | |
| Rasbora johannae | |
Etymology
The fish is named in memory of British politician Joan Helen Vickers (1907-1994), a British Conservative London Councillor and Member of Parliament and later the chairman of the Anglo-Indonesian Society.[2]
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Rasbora johannae" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family SUNDADANIONIDAE and DANIONIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
- Siebert, D.J. and S. Guiry, 1996. Rasbora johannae (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), a new species of the R. trifasciata-complex from Kalimantan, Indonesia. Cybium 29(4):395-404.
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