Roa

Life-forms

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: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Eupercaria
Ordo: Chaetodontiformes

Familia: Chaetodontidae
Genus: Roa
Species: R. australis – R. excelsa – R. jayakari – R. modesta
Name

Roa Jordan, 1923: 63

Type species: Loa excelsa Jordan, 1922
Type by being a replacement name
Replacement for Loa Jordan, 1922, preoccupied by Loa Stiles, 1905 in Nematoda
Gender: feminine

References

Jordan, D. S., 1923: A classification of fishes including families and genera as far as known. Stanford University Publications, University Series, Biological Sciences 3 (2): 77–243 + i-x. Reference page.
Kuiter, R.H. 2004: Description of a new species of butterflyfish, Roa australis, from Northwestern Australia (Pisces: Perciformes: Chaetodontidae). Records of the Australian Museum, 56: 167–171. PDF
Rocha, L.A., Pinheiro, H.T., Wandell, M., Rocha, C.R. & Shepherd, B. 2017. Roa rumsfeldi, a new butterflyfish (Teleostei: Chaetodontidae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines. ZooKeys 709: 127–134. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.709.20404. Reference page.

Links

ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Roa species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names
Deutsch: Roa-Falterfische

Roa is a genus of butterflyfishes native to the Indian and Pacific oceans. The six species are widely distributed: R. australis near Australia, R. excelsa near Hawaii and nearby islands, R. jayakari near India, R. modesta near Japan and China, R. rumsfeldi in the Philippines,[2] and R. haraguchiae near Japan and the Philippines.[3]
Species

There are currently eight recognized species in this genus:[4][5]

Roa australis Kuiter, 2004 (Triple-banded butterflyfish)
Roa excelsa (D. S. Jordan, 1921) (Hawaiian gold-barred butterflyfish)
Roa haraguchiae (Uejo, Senou & Motomura, 2020) (Haraguchi's butterflyfish)
Roa jayakari (Norman, 1939) (Indian golden-barred butterflyfish)
Roa modesta (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844) (Japanese golden-barred butterflyfish)
Roa rumsfeldi (Rocha, Pinheiro, Wandell, Rocha & Shepherd, 2017) (Deep-blackfin butterflyfish)
Roa semilunaris (Matsunuma & Motomura 2022) (Semilunar-spot butterflyfish)
Roa uejoi (Matsunuma & Motomura 2022) (Uejo's butterflyfish)

References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Chaetodontidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
Rocha, Luiz A.; Pinheiro, Hudson T.; Wandell, Matt; Rocha, Claudia R.; Shepherd, Bart (October 18, 2017). "Roa rumsfeldi, a new butterflyfish (Teleostei, Chaetodontidae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines". ZooKeys (709): 127–134. Bibcode:2017ZooK..709..127R. doi:10.3897/zookeys.709.20404. PMC 5674171. PMID 29118639. Retrieved October 19, 2017.
Uejo, T., Senou, H. & Motomura, H. (2020). "Roa haraguchiae, a new species of butterflyfish (Teleostei: Perciformes: Chaetodontidae) from Japan and the Philippines". Ichthyological Research. 67 (3): 408–415. Bibcode:2020IchtR..67..408U. doi:10.1007/s10228-020-00735-9. S2CID 211088538. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
N. Bailly (2014). Bailly N (ed.). "Roa Jordan, 1923". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
Matsunuma, Mizuki; Motomura, Hiroyuki (March 2022). "Two new species of the butterflyfish genus Roa (Perciformes: Chaetodontidae)". Journal of Fish Biology. 100 (3): 758–774. Bibcode:2022JFBio.100..758M. doi:10.1111/jfb.14993. ISSN 1095-8649. PMID 35038164. S2CID 246019195.