Bangana
Genus of fishes
| Bangana | |
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| Bangana diplostoma | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Labeoninae |
| Genus: | Bangana Hamilton, 1822 |
| Type species | |
| Cyprinus dero Hamilton, 1822 | |
| Species | |
| (see text) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Bangana is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. It is distributed across much of southern and eastern Asia. Species live mainly in the flowing waters of tropical and subtropical rivers.[1]
Taxonomy and species
Bangana includes many species formerly classified in the genus Sinilabeo.[1] A number of species often placed in Bangana have again been moved to other genera, notably Altigena, Gymnostomus, Incisilabeo, Speolabeo and Decorus, but to what extent these changes are recognized varies.[2][3][4][5][6]
According to FishBase, there are 6 species in Bangana.[7]
- Bangana almorae (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1912)
- Bangana brevirostris Liu & Zhou, 2009[1]
- Bangana dero (Hamilton, 1822) (kalabans)
- Bangana devdevi (Hora, 1936)
- Bangana diplostoma (Heckel, 1838)
- Bangana gedrosicus (Zugmayer, 1912)
References
- ^ a b c Liu, K. and W. Zhou. (2009). Bangana brevirostris, a new species of cyprinid fish (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from the Lancang-Jiang (Upper Mekong River) drainage in Yunnan, Southwest China. Zootaxa 1980, 61-68.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Bangana". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Altigena". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Gymnostomus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Incisilabeo". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Decorus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Bangana in FishBase. July 2024 version.
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