Badis (genus)

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Badis
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Badis ruber
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Anabantiformes
Family:
Badidae
Genus:
Badis

Bleeker, 1854

Badis is a genus of fish in the family Badidae found in South Asia, Southeast Asia and China. These species have a sharp spine on the opercle, soft and spinous parts of the dorsal fin contiguous, three spines in the anal fin, tubed pores in the lateral line, villiform teeth and a rounded caudal fin. [1] In addition, they differ from the related genus Dario by being larger and displaying more involved parental care. [2]

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Fish vertebrate animal that lives in water and (typically) has gills

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits. They form a sister group to the tunicates, together forming the olfactores. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Tetrapods emerged within lobe-finned fishes, so cladistically they are fish as well. However, traditionally fish are rendered paraphyletic by excluding the tetrapods. Because in this manner the term "fish" is defined negatively as a paraphyletic group, it is not considered a formal taxonomic grouping in systematic biology, unless it is used in the cladistic sense, including tetrapods. The traditional term pisces is considered a typological, but not a phylogenetic classification.

Family is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy; it is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as being the "walnut family".

Species

There are currently 24 recognized species in this genus, [3] but a comprehensive taxonomic review is necessary as some of the described species are inseparable based on available data. [4]

Taxonomy (biology) The science of identifying, describing, defining and naming groups of biological organisms

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References

  1. 1 2 Geetakumari, K. & Kadu, K. (2011): Badis singenensis, a new fish species (Teleostei: Badidae) from Singen River, Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 3 (9): 2085-2089.
  2. ↑ SeriouslyFish: Badis badis. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  3. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Badis in FishBase . February 2019 version.
  4. ↑ Kullander, S., Nóren, M., Rahman, M.M. & Mollah, A.R. (2019). Chameleonfishes in Bangladesh: hipshot taxonomy, sibling species, elusive species, and limits of species delimitation (Teleostei: Badidae). Zootaxa 4586(2). doi : 10.11646/zootaxa.4586.2.7
  5. 1 2 3 4 Valdesalici, S. & van der Voort, S. (2015): Four new species of the Indo-Burmese genus Badis from West Bengal, India (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Badidae). Zootaxa, 3985 (3): 391–408.
  6. ↑ Dahanukar, N., Kumkar, P., Katwate, U. & Raghavan, R. (2015): Badis britzi, a new percomorph fish (Teleostei: Badidae) from the Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa, 3941 (3): 429–436.
  7. ↑ Valdesalici, S. & van der Voort, S. (2015): Badis laspiophilus, a new miniature addition to the ichthyofauna of West Bengal, north-eastern India, with observations on its ecology and preliminary notes on its ethology (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Badidae). Zootaxa, 3986 (2): 193–200.
  8. ↑ Basumatary, S., Choudhury, H., Baishya, R.A., Sarma, D. & Vishwanath, W. (2016): Badis pancharatnaensis, a new percoid fish species from Brahmaputra River drainage, Assam, India (Teleostei: Badidae). Vertebrate Zoology, 66 (2): 151-156.


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