Dawkinsia

Short description: Genus of fishes

Dawkinsia

Dawkinsia exclamatio
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Cypriniformes
Family:  | Cyprinidae
Subfamily:  | Barbinae
Genus:  | Dawkinsia
Pethiyagoda, Meegaskumbura & Maduwage, 2012
Type species
Leuciscus filamentosus

Valenciennes, 1844

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]

## Contents

* 1 Etymology
* 2 Description
* 3 Species
* 4 References

## 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

Dawkinsia apsara

There are currently eleven 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 exclamatio (Pethiyagoda & Kottelat, 2005)
* Dawkinsia filamentosa (Valenciennes, 1844) (Blackspot/Filament barb)
* Dawkinsia rohani (Rema Devi, Indra & Knight, 2010)
* Dawkinsia rubrotinctus (Jerdon, 1849)
* Dawkinsia singhala (Duncker, 1912)
* Dawkinsia srilankensis (Senanayake, 1985) (Blotched filamented barb)
* Dawkinsia tambraparniei (Silas, 1954)
* Dawkinsia uttara (Unmesh Katwate, Deepak Apte, Rajeev Raghavan[5] 2020)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rohan 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. http://www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/pdf/ief23_1_12.pdf.
2. ↑ "Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily SMILIOGASTRINAE Bleeker 1863 (Small Barbs)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. https://etyfish.org/smiliogastrinae/.
3. ↑ Bethan Jinkinson (19 July 2012). "Ten species named after famous people". BBC News. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18889495.
4. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). Species of Dawkinsia in FishBase. August 2015 version.
5. ↑ Unmesh Katwate, Deepak Apte, Rajeev Raghavan, Dawkinsia uttara, a new species of filament barb (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Western Ghats of India, Vertibrate Zoology, 70(4): 717– 730, 2020

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