Devario

Devario
Bengal danio (Devario devario), the type species of Devario.
Devario pathirana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Danionidae
Subfamily:	Danioninae
Genus:	Devario Heckel, 1843
Type species
Cyprinus devario Hamilton, 1822
Synonyms
Paradanio Day, 1865 Eustira Günther, 1868 Rambaibarnia Fowler, 1934 Danioides X. L. Chu, 1935 Parabarilius Pellegrin & P. W. Fang, 1940 Daniops H. M. Smith, 1945

Devario is a genus of fish in the family Danionidae, a family which also contains several other genera of popular freshwater aquarium fish such as Rasbora and Danio .

Devario are native to the rivers and streams of South and Southeast Asia. ^[1] They have short barbels, with many species having vertical or horizontal stripes. These species consume various small, aquatic insects, crustaceans and worms, as well as, in the case of fry, plankton.^{[ citation needed ]}

Species

Giant danio (D. aequipinnatus)

Bengal danio (D. devario)

D. interruptus

Malabar danio (D. malabarensis)

Devario contains the following species:: ^[2]

• Devario acrostomus (F. Fang & Kottelat, 1999)
• Devario acuticephala (Hora, 1921)
• Devario aequipinnatus (McClelland, 1839) (Giant Danio)
• Devario affinis (Blyth, 1860)
• Devario ahlanderi Kullander & Norén, 2022.
• Devario annandalei (Chaudhuri, 1908).
• Devario anomalus Conway, Mayden & Tang, 2009
• Devario apogon (X. L. Chu, 1981)
• Devario apopyris (F. Fang & Kottelat, 1999)
• Devario browni (Regan, 1907)
• Devario chrysotaeniatus (X. L. Chu 1981)
• Devario coxi Kullander, Rahman, Norén & Mollah, 2017
• Devario deruptotalea Ramananda & Vishwanath, 2014
• Devario devario (Hamilton, 1822) (Bengal danio)
• Devario fangae Kullander, 2017
• Devario fangfangae (Kottelat, 2000)
• Devario fraseri (Hora, 1935) (Fraser's danio)
• Devario gibber (Kottelat, 2000)
• Devario interruptus (Day, 1870)
• Devario kakhienensis (J. Anderson, 1879)
• Devario kysonensis (Nguyễn, Nguyễn & Mùa, 2010)
• Devario laoensis (Pellegrin & P. W. Fang, 1940)
• Devario leptos (F. Fang & Kottelat 1999)
• Devario malabaricus (Jerdon, 1849) (Malabar danio)
• Devario manipurensis (Barman, 1987)
• Devario memorialis Sudasinghe, Pethiyagoda & Meegaskumbura, 2020 (Aranayake devario)
• Devario micronema (Bleeker, 1863)
• Devario monticola Batuwita, de Silva & Udugampala, 2017 (Mountain danio)
• Devario myitkyinae Kullander, 2017
• Devario naganensis (Chaudhuri, 1912)
• Devario neilgherriensis (Day, 1867) (Nilgiri danio)
• Devario pathirana (Kottelat & Pethiyagoda, 1990) (Barred danio)
• Devario pullatus Kottelat, 2020
• Devario quangbinhensis (T. T. Nguyen, V. T. Le & X. K. Nguyễn, 1999)
• Devario regina (Fowler, 1934) (Queen danio)
• Devario salmonatus (Kottelat, 2000)
• Devario shanensis (Hora, 1928)
• Devario sondhii (Hora & Mukerji, 1934).
• Devario spinosus (Day, 1870)
• Devario strigillifer (Myers, 1924)
• Devario subviridis Kottelat, 2020
• Devario xyrops F. Fang & Kullander, 2009 (Blue moon danio)
• Devario yuensis (Arunkumar & Tombi Singh, 1998)

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Devario". FishBase . March 2024 version.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Devario". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 16 February 2025.