Raiamas

Raiamas
Trout barb (Raiamas bola)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Danionidae
Subfamily:	Chedrinae
Genus:	Raiamas D. S. Jordan, 1919 [1]
Type species
Cyprinus bola F. Hamilton, 1822 [1]
Species
17, see text.
Synonyms [1]
Bola Günther, 1868

Raiamas is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Danionidae, the danios or danionins. The majority of the species are from Africa, but R. bola and R. guttatus are from South and Southeast Asia.

Species

Raiamas contains the following species: ^[2]

• Raiamas ansorgii (Boulenger, 1910)
• Raiamas batesii (Boulenger, 1914)
• Raiamas bola (Hamilton, 1822) (Trout barb)
• Raiamas brachyrhabdotos Manda, Snoeks, Manda & Vreven, 2018
• Raiamas buchholzi (Peters, 1876)
• Raiamas christyi (Boulenger, 1920) (Coppernose barb)
• Raiamas guttatus (Day, 1870) (Burmese trout)
• Raiamas intermedius (Boulenger, 1915)
• Raiamas kheeli Stiassny, Schelly & Schliewen, 2006
• Raiamas levequei Howes & Teugels, 1989
• Raiamas longirostris (Boulenger, 1902)
• Raiamas marqueti Manda, Snoeks, Manda & Vreven, 2018
• Raiamas moorii (Boulenger, 1900) (Lake Rukwa minnow)
• Raiamas nigeriensis (Daget, 1959) (Aeroplane fish)
• Raiamas salmolucius (Nichols & Griscom, 1917)
• Raiamas scarciensis Howes & Teugels, 1989
• Raiamas senegalensis (Steindachner, 1870) (Silverfish)
• Raiamas steindachneri (Pellegrin, 1908)

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Chedrinae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 7 February 2025.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Raiamas". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 7 February 2025.

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Raiamas". FishBase . August 2011 version.