Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Cypriniformes
Subordo: Cyprinoidei
Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Smiliogastrinae
Genus Dawkinsia
Species (9): D. arulius – D. assimilis – D. exclamatio – D. filamentosa – D. rohani – D. rubrotinctus – D. singhala – D. srilankensis – D. tambraparniei
Name
Dawkinsia Pethiyagoda, Meegaskumbura & Maduwage, 2012
Etymology: named after Richard Dawkins, English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, zoologist and writer.
Type species: Leuciscus filamentosus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1844. Fixation: original designation [see p. 80]
Primary references
Pethiyagoda, R., Meegaskumbura, M. & Maduwage, K. 2012. A synopsis of the South Asian fishes referred to Puntius (Pisces: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 23(1): 69–95. PDF Reference page.
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]
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
There are currently fifteen 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 (Austellus barb)
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 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[5]
References
Rohan Pethiyagoda, R.; Meegaskumbura, M. & Maduwage, K. (2012). "A synopsis of the South Asian fishes referred to Puntius (Pisces: Cyprinidae)" (PDF). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 23 (1): 69–95.
Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara. "Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily SMILIOGASTRINAE Bleeker 1863 (Small Barbs)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
Bethan Jinkinson (19 July 2012). "Ten species named after famous people". BBC News. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Dawkinsia". FishBase. July 2024 version.
Unmesh Katwate; Deepak Apte; Rajeev Raghavan (2020). "Dawkinsia uttara, a new species of filament barb (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Western Ghats of India". Vertebrate Zoology. 70 (4): 717–730.
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