Rasboroides_rohani

<i>Rasboroides rohani</i>

Rasboroides rohani

Species of fish

Rasboroides rohani, is a species of freshwater cyprinid fish endemic to Sri Lanka[2] where only known from shallow, slow-flowing, shady streams near Suriyakanda in the Walawe River basin.[1] It was scientifically described in 2013,[1] but a comprehensive review in 2018 based on morphometry, meristics and mtDNA disputed its validity, showing that it is a junior synonym of R. pallidus.[3] The occurrence of R. pallidus in the Walawe River basin is not natural, but the result of translocations.[3]

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References

  1. [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. [2]
    Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Rasboroides rohani" in FishBase. October 2013 version.
  3. [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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