Badis (fish)

Badis is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Badidae found in South Asia, Southeast Asia and China. These species have a sharp spine on the opercle, soft and spinous parts of the dorsal fin contiguous, three spines in the anal fin, tubed pores in the lateral line, villiform teeth and a rounded caudal fin.[2] In addition, they differ from the related genus Dario by being larger and displaying more involved parental care.[3]

Badis
Badis ruber
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Badidae
Genus: Badis
Bleeker, 1854
Type species
Badis buchanani
Bleeker, 1853[1]

Species

There are currently 24 recognized species in this genus,[4] but a comprehensive taxonomic review is necessary as some of the described species are inseparable based on available data.[5]

  • Badis andrewraoi Valdesalici & van der Voort, 2015[6]
  • Badis assamensis C. G. E. Ahl, 1937
  • Badis autumnum Valdesalici & van der Voort, 2015[6]
  • Badis badis (F. Hamilton, 1822)
  • Badis blosyrus S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
  • Badis britzi Dahanukar, Kumkar, U. Katwate & Raghavan, 2015[7]
  • Badis chittagongis S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
  • Badis corycaeus S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
  • Badis dibruensis Geetakumari & Vishwanath, 2010
  • Badis ferrarisi S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
  • Badis juergenschmidti I. Schindler & Linke, 2010
  • Badis kanabos S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
  • Badis khwae S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
  • Badis kyanos Valdesalici & van der Voort, 2015[6]
  • Badis kyar S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
  • Badis laspiophilus Valdesalici & van der Voort, 2015[8]
  • Badis pancharatnaensis Basumatary, Choudhury, Baishya, Sarma & Vishwanath, 2016[9]
  • Badis pyema S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
  • Badis ruber Schreitmüller, 1923
  • Badis siamensis Klausewitz, 1957
  • Badis singenensis Geetakumari & Kadu, 2011[2]
  • Badis soraya Valdesalici & van der Voort, 2015[6]
  • Badis triocellus Khynriam & Sen, 2013
  • Badis tuivaiei Vishwanath & Shanta, 2004
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References
  1. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Badis". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  2. Geetakumari, K. & Kadu, K. (2011): Badis singenensis, a new fish species (Teleostei: Badidae) from Singen River, Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine Journal of Threatened Taxa, 3 (9): 2085-2089.
  3. SeriouslyFish: Badis badis. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  4. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Badis in FishBase. February 2019 version.
  5. Kullander, S., Nóren, M., Rahman, M.M. & Mollah, A.R. (2019). Chameleonfishes in Bangladesh: hipshot taxonomy, sibling species, elusive species, and limits of species delimitation (Teleostei: Badidae). Zootaxa 4586(2). doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4586.2.7
  6. Valdesalici, S. & van der Voort, S. (2015): Four new species of the Indo-Burmese genus Badis from West Bengal, India (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Badidae). Zootaxa, 3985 (3): 391–408.
  7. 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.
  8. Valdesalici, S. & van der Voort, S. (2015): Badis laspiophilus, a new miniature addition to the ichthyofauna of West Bengal, north-eastern India, with observations on its ecology and preliminary notes on its ethology (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Badidae). Zootaxa, 3986 (2): 193–200.
  9. Basumatary, S., Choudhury, H., Baishya, R.A., Sarma, D. & Vishwanath, W. (2016): Badis pancharatnaensis, a new percoid fish species from Brahmaputra River drainage, Assam, India (Teleostei: Badidae). Vertebrate Zoology, 66 (2): 151-156.


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