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Dawkinsia
Genus of fishes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dawkinsia is a genus of cyprinid fishes from freshwater in South India and Sri Lanka. It was split off (i.e., reclassified) from genus Puntius in 2012.[1]
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Etymology
Dawkinsia is named after the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in recognition of his "contribution to the public understanding of science, particularly, of evolutionary science".[2][1]: p.80 Dawkins describes this as "a great honour".[3]
Description
Adults typically measure 8–12 cm (3.1–4.7 in) SL. They do not have rostral barbels but might have maxillary barbels. Juveniles have a colour pattern consisting of three black bars on body; this persists to adult stage in some species. Adults have a black, horizontally elongate blotch on the caudal peduncle.[1]: p.80
Species
These are the currently recognized species in this genus:[4]
- Dawkinsia apsara (Katwate, Marcus Knight, Anoop, Raghavan & Dahanukar, 2020) (mascara barb)
- Dawkinsia arulius (Jerdon, 1849) (Arulius barb)
- Dawkinsia assimilis (Jerdon, 1849)
- Dawkinsia austellus Katwate, Marcus Knight, Anoop, Raghavan & Dahanukar, 2020
- Dawkinsia chalakkudiensis (Menon, Rema Devi & Thobias, 1999)
- Dawkinsia crassa Katwate, Marcus Knight, Anoop, Raghavan & Dahanukar, 2020 (Rounded filament barb)
- Dawkinsia denisonii (F. Day, 1865) (Denison barb; red line torpedo barb)
- Dawkinsia exclamatio (Pethiyagoda & Kottelat, 2005)
- Dawkinsia filamentosa (Valenciennes, 1844) (Blackspot/Filament barb)
- Dawkinsia lepida (Day, 1868)
- Dawkinsia rohani (Rema Devi, Indra & Knight, 2010)
- Dawkinsia rubrotincta (Jerdon, 1849)
- Dawkinsia singhala (Duncker, 1912)
- Dawkinsia srilankensis (Senanayake, 1985) (Blotched filamented barb)
- Dawkinsia tambraparniei (Silas, 1954)
- Dawkinsia uttara Katwate, Apte & Raghavan, 2020
References
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