Osteobrama

Osteobrama is a genus of cyprinid fish found in southern Asia consisting of eight species. The name is derived from the Greek word osteon, meaning "bone", and the Old French word breme, a type of freshwater fish.

Osteobrama
Osteobrama alfredianus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Osteobrama
Heckel, 1843
Type species
Cyprinus cotio
Hamilton, 1822
Species

10, see text.

Synonyms[1]

Smiliogaster Bleeker, 1860

Species

There are 10 valid species in the genus:[2][3]

Fishbase formerly regarded O. bhimensis as a synonym of O. vigorsii, and also treats the former subspecies of O. cotio as distinct species: O. cunma and O. peninsularis,[5][6] which is not supported by ITIS[7] or WoRMS.[1]

References

  1. Bailly, Nicolas (2018). "Osteobrama Heckel, 1843". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Osteobrama in FishBase. March 2024 version.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Osteobrama". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  4. BUNGDON SHANGNINGAM; SHIBANANDA RATH; ASHA KIRAN TUDU; LAISHRAM KOSYGIN (10 January 2020). "A new species of Osteobrama (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Mahanadi River, India with a note on the validity of O. dayi". Zootaxa. 4722 (1): zootaxa.4722.1.6. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4722.1.6. PMID 32230640.
  5. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2017). "Osteobrama cotio" in FishBase. December 2017 version.
  6. Manorama Maisnam; Suresh Chandra; Kuldeep K. Lal; Rajeev K. Singh; Vindhya Mohindra (2017). "Characterization of threatened endemic fish Osteobrama belangeri (Valenciennes, 1844) and related species from North-East India based on morphological and molecular analysis". Mitochondrial DNA Part A. 29 (6): 919–932. doi:10.1080/24701394.2017.1389914. PMID 29092681. S2CID 205974731.
  7. "Osteobrama". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 June 2007.


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