Osteochilus kahajanensis

Last updated

Osteochilus kahajanensis
Osteochilus kahajanensis Bleeker.jpg
Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Labeoninae
Genus: Osteochilus
Species:
O. kahajanensis
Binomial name
Osteochilus kahajanensis
(Bleeker, 1856)
Synonyms

Rohita kahajanensis

Osteochilus kahajanensis is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. [1]

Named after the Kahajan River, Borneo, the type locality. [2]


Related Research Articles

Shigeho Tanaka was a Japanese ichthyologist and professor of zoology at the Imperial University of Tokyo. He published numerous works on fishes and sharks and co-authored a book on Japanese fish with famous American scientist David Starr Jordan.

Bartail jawfish Species of fish

The bartail jawfish is a species of jawfish known only from reefs in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of southern Brazil. This species can reach a length of 11.4 centimetres (4.5 in) SL. The specific name honours the French naturalist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832).

<i>Hypleurochilus springeri</i> Species of fish

Hypleurochilus springeri, the orange-spotted blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the western Atlantic ocean. This species grows to a length of 5 centimetres (2.0 in) TL. The specific name honours the American ichthyologist Victor G. Springer.

<i>Acanthemblemaria johnsoni</i> Species of fish

The white-cheeked blenny is a species of chaenopsid blenny found in coral reefs around Tobago, in the western central Atlantic ocean. The specific name honours the ichthyologist G. David Johnson Curator of the Division of Fishes at the Smithsonian Institution.

<i>Enneapterygius tutuilae</i> Species of fish

Enneapterygius tutuilae, known commonly as the high-hat triplefin or rosy cheek threefin, is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Enneapterygius. It was described by David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale in 1906. This species occurs from the eastern Indian Ocean around the Cocos (Keeling) Islands east to French Polynesia. Its specific name refers to the Samoan island of Tutuila where the type was collected.

Enneapterygius larsonae, known commonly as the Western Australian black-head triplefin, is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Enneapterygius. It was described by the German ichthyologist Ronald Fricke in 1994. The specific name honours Helen K. Larson, the Curator of Fishes at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, Australia, who collected the type.

Thomas Henry Fraser is an ichthyologist and expert in cardinalfishes. According to the Australian Museum website, "He is a world expert on the taxonomy of Cardinalfishes." The combtooth blennies Dodekablennos fraseri and Meiacanthus fraseri were named in honour of Fraser.

Osteochilus lini is a freshwater fish from Southeast Asia. It is found in the lower Mekong River basin, the Chao Phraya River basin, and some coastal drainages; it occurs in Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. Its common name is dusky face carp.

<i>Osteochilus waandersii</i> Species of fish

Osteochilus waandersii is a cyprinid freshwater fish from Southeast Asia. It is found in Indochina as well as in Sumatra and Borneo. Its common name is Waanders's hard-lipped barb.

Canna Maria Louise Popta was a Dutch biologist.

<i>Pungtungia herzi</i> Species of fish

Pungtungia herzi is a species of cyprinid fish found in Japan and the Korean Peninsula.

Osteochilus bleekeri is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Borneo and Sumatra.

Osteochilus chini is a species of cyprinid fish in the Labeoninae endemic to Sabah.

Osteochilus harrisoni is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to northern Borneo.

Osteochilus ingeri is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Sabah.

<i>Osteochilus kappenii</i> Species of fish

Osteochilus kappenii is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to western Borneo.

<i>Osteochilus nashii</i> Species of fish

Osteochilus nashii, also known a

Osteochilus salsburyi is a species of cyprinid fish found in Laos, northern Vietnam, and southern China.

Osteochilus sondhii is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Myanmar. It is sometimes considered conspecific with Labeo dyocheilus.

Helen K. Larson is an ichthyologist who specialises in the fishes of the Indo-Pacific.

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Osteochilus kahajanensis" in FishBase . November 2014 version.
  2. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily LABEONINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 17 February 2021.