Badidae

The Badidae (the chameleonfishes) are a small family (about 30 species) which has been placed in the order anabantiforme fishes. However, the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the family as being a sister to the Anabantiformes, along with the Nandidae and Pristolepididae in an unnamed and unranked but monophyletic clade which is a sister to the Ovalentaria within the wider Percomorpha.[2] Members of this family are small freshwater fish that are found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Thailand.[3][4][5] The largest is Badis assamensis that reaches a standard length of up to 7.5 cm (3 in),[6] while the smallest, Dario dario, does not exceed 2 cm (0.8 in).[7]

Badidae
Badis badis
Dario dario (male)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Percomorpha
Family: Badidae
Barlow, Liem & Wickler, 1968
Genera[1]

References
  1. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Badidae" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
  2. J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 394. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Badis in FishBase. February 2019 version.
  4. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Dario in FishBase. February 2019 version.
  5. Dahanukar, N.; Kumkar, P.; Katwate, U.; Raghavan, R. (2015). "Badis britzi, a new percomorph fish (Teleostei: Badidae) from the Western Ghats of India". Zootaxa. 3941 (3): 429–436.
  6. "Badis assamensis". SeriouslyFish. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  7. "Dario dario". SeriouslyFish. Retrieved 16 February 2019.


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