Rasboroides nigromarginatus

Rasboroides nigromarginatus is a species of freshwater cyprinid fish endemic to Sri Lanka where only known from small, shaded streams in the Atweltota region of the Kalu River basin.[1] It can also be found in the aquarium trade.[2]

Rasboroides nigromarginatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Danioninae
Genus: Rasboroides
Species:
R. nigromarginatus
Binomial name
Rasboroides nigromarginatus
Meinken, 1957

Long considered a synonym of R. vaterifloris, R. nigromarginatus was revalidated as a species in 2013.[1] A comprehensive taxonomic review in 2018 based on morphometry, meristics and mtDNA disputed this, returning it to being a synonym of R. vaterifloris.[3]

References

  1. Batuwita, Sudesh; de Silva, M.; Edirisinghe, U. (November 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.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Rasboroides nigromaculatus" in FishBase. October 2013 version.
  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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