Rasbora: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Danionidae
- Genus
- Rasbora
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Rasbora
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Rasbora
Rasbora is a genus of fish in the family Danionidae. They are native to freshwater habitats in South and Southeast Asia, as well as southeast China. A single species, Rasbora gerlachi, is only known from an old specimen that reputedly originated from Africa (Cameroon), but this locality is considered doubtful. They are small, up to 17 cm (6.7 in) long, although most species do not surpass 10 cm (4 in) and many have a dark horizontal stripe.
Several species are regularly kept in aquariums. As a common English name, "rasbora" is used for many species in the genus Rasbora, as well as several species in genera Brevibora, Boraras, Megarasbora, Metzia, Microdevario, Microrasbora, Rasboroides, Rasbosoma, Sawbwa, Trigonopoma and Trigonostigma. Some of these related genera were included in the genus Rasbora in the past. In a 2007 analysis, Rasbora was found to not be a monophyletic assemblage. However Boraras and Trigonostigma were determined to be monophyletic.
...Rasbora in languages:
- Chinese
- 波魚屬
- English
- Rasboras
- English
- True Rasboras
- Russian
- Расборы
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Rasbora adisi
- Rasbora amplistriga
- Rasbora api
- Rasbora aprotaenia
- Rasbora argyrotaenia
- Rasbora armitagei
- Rasbora arundinata
- Rasbora ataenia
- Rasbora atranus
- Rasbora atridorsalis
- Rasbora aurotaenia
- Rasbora baliensis
- Rasbora bankanensis
- Rasbora bindumatoga
- Rasbora borapetensis
- Rasbora borneensis
- Rasbora bunguranensis
- Rasbora calliura
- Rasbora caudimaculata
- Rasbora caverii
- Rasbora cephalotaenia
- Rasbora chrysotaenia
- Rasbora cryptica
- Rasbora dandia
- Rasbora daniconius
- Rasbora dies
- Rasbora dorsinotata
- Rasbora dusonensis
- Rasbora einthovenii
- Rasbora elegans
- Rasbora ennealepis
- Rasbora everetti
- Rasbora gerlachi
- Rasbora haru
- Rasbora hobelmani
- Rasbora hosii
- Rasbora hubbsi
- Rasbora jacobsoni
- Rasbora johannae
- Rasbora kalbarensis
- Rasbora kalochroma
- Rasbora kluetensis
- Rasbora kobonensis
- Rasbora kottelati
- Rasbora labiosa
- Rasbora lacrimula
- Rasbora lateristriata
- Rasbora laticlavia
- Rasbora leptosoma
- Rasbora maninjau
- Rasbora marinae
- Rasbora meinkeni
- Rasbora microcephalus
- Rasbora myersi
- Rasbora naggsi
- Rasbora neilgherriensis
- Rasbora nematotaenia
- Rasbora nodulosa
- Rasbora notura
- Rasbora ornata
- Rasbora patrickyapi
- Rasbora paucisqualis
- Rasbora paviana
- Rasbora philippina
- Rasbora pycnopeza
- Rasbora rasbora
- Rasbora reticulata
- Rasbora rheophila
- Rasbora rubrodorsalis
- Rasbora rutteni
- Rasbora sarawakensis
- Rasbora semilineata
- Rasbora septentrionalis
- Rasbora simonbirchi
- Rasbora spilotaenia
- Rasbora steineri
- Rasbora subtilis
- Rasbora sumatrana
- Rasbora tawarensis
- Rasbora tobana
- Rasbora tornieri
- Rasbora trifasciata
- Rasbora trilineata
- Rasbora truncata
- Rasbora tubbi
- Rasbora tuberculata
- Rasbora vaillantii
- Rasbora volzii
- Rasbora vulcanus
- Rasbora vulgaris
- Rasbora wilpita































































































































































