Roa (fish)

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Roa
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Roa modesta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acanthuriformes
Family: Chaetodontidae
Genus: Roa
D. S. Jordan, 1923
Type species
Loa excelsa
D. S. Jordan, 1921 [1]

Roa is a genus of butterflyfishes native to the Indian and Pacific oceans. The six species are widely distributed: R. australis near Australia, R. excelsa near Hawaii and nearby islands, R. jayakari near India, R. modesta near Japan and China, R. rumsfeldi in the Philippines, [2] and R. haraguchiae near Japan and the Philippines. [3]

Species

There are currently eight recognized species in this genus: [4] [5]

References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Chaetodontidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Rocha, Luiz A.; Pinheiro, Hudson T.; Wandell, Matt; Rocha, Claudia R.; Shepherd, Bart (October 18, 2017). "Roa rumsfeldi, a new butterflyfish (Teleostei, Chaetodontidae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines". ZooKeys (709): 127–134. Bibcode:2017ZooK..709..127R. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.709.20404 . PMC   5674171 . PMID   29118639 . Retrieved October 19, 2017.
  3. Uejo, T., Senou, H. & Motomura, H. (2020). "Roa haraguchiae, a new species of butterflyfish (Teleostei: Perciformes: Chaetodontidae) from Japan and the Philippines" . Ichthyological Research. 67 (3): 408–415. Bibcode:2020IchtR..67..408U. doi:10.1007/s10228-020-00735-9. S2CID   211088538 . Retrieved June 4, 2020.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. N. Bailly (2014). Bailly N (ed.). "Roa Jordan, 1923". FishBase . World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  5. Matsunuma, Mizuki; Motomura, Hiroyuki (March 2022). "Two new species of the butterflyfish genus Roa (Perciformes: Chaetodontidae)". Journal of Fish Biology. 100 (3): 758–774. Bibcode:2022JFBio.100..758M. doi:10.1111/jfb.14993. ISSN   1095-8649. PMID   35038164. S2CID   246019195.