Rita (fish)

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Rita
Temporal range: 5.3–0  Ma
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Rita rita
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Superfamily: Bagroidea
Family: Ritidae
Bleeker, 1858
Genus: Rita
Bleeker, 1853
Type species
Pimelodus rita
Hamilton, 1822

Rita (from the Bengali name of Rita rita ) [1] , commonly known as velvet catfishes, is a genus of catfish found in South Asia. It is the only member of the family Ritidae. [2] These species have a single pair of mandibular barbels, an elongated Weberian apparatus firmly sutured to the basioccipital and the sensory canal on the posttemporal enclosed with bone. [3]

Species

There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus:

In addition, the fossil species Rita grandiscutata is known from the Early Pliocene-aged sediments in the Siwalik Hills of Punjab. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Family RITIDAE Bleeker 1862 (Ritas and Nanobagrids)". The ETYFish Project. 2024-04-15. Retrieved 2025-04-12.
  2. ↑ Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Van der Laan, R. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2025-02-10.
  3. ↑ Ng, H.H. (2004): Rita macracanthus, a new riverine catfish (Teleostei: Bagridae) from South Asia. Zootaxa, 568: 1–12.
  4. ↑ Lal, K.K., Dwivedi, A.K., Singh, R.K., Mohindra, V., Chandra, S., Gupta, B.K., Dhawan, S. & Jena, J. (2016): A new bagrid catfish species, Rita bakalu (Siluriformes: Bagridae), from the Godavari River basin, India. Hydrobiologia, 790 (1): 67–81.
  5. ↑ Ferraris, Carl J. (2007-03-08). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418 (1): 1–628. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1. ISSN   1175-5334.


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