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Devario neilgherriensis (DAY, 1867)

Peninsular 'Danio'

July 26th, 2013 — 3:46pm

Appears endemic to tributaries of the Bhavani river system in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu state, southern India including the Pykara, Avalanche and Kaity streams.

Type locality is ‘Ootacamund Lake, Pykara, Avelanche and Kaity streams, Neilgherry Hills, India’, with the former now often shortened to Ooty Lake.

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'Inlecypris' maetaengensis (FANG, 1997)

Fire Bar 'Danio'

July 26th, 2013 — 2:40pm

A peaceful species suited to a well-chosen community aquarium.

There are plenty of potential tankmates including many cyprinids, loaches, cichlids, catfishes and characins, although as always proper research is essential in order to avoid problems.

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Bhavania australis (JERDON, 1849)

June 20th, 2013 — 9:50pm

An obligate dweller of shallow, fast-flowing, highly-oxygenated headwaters and minor tributaries characterised by stretches of riffles and runs broken up by pools or cascades in some cases.

Substrates are normally composed of smaller rocks, sand and gravel with jumbles of boulders, and whil…

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Beaufortia cyclica CHEN, 1980

June 20th, 2013 — 9:13pm

Known only from a handful of localities within the Xi River (Xi Jiang) drainage in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, southern China plus the Tuoniang river system in Funing County, southeastern Yunnan province.

Type locality is ‘West River, Longzhow Xian, Guangxi Province, China’.

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Pethia reval (MEEGASKUMBURA, SILVA, MADUWAGE & PETHIYAGODA, 2008)

June 11th, 2013 — 4:09pm

This species was considered a colour form of the related Pethia cumingii prior to its description.

It can be told apart from P. cumingii by the following combination of characters: maximum standard length 33.6 mm (vs. 41.2 mm); smaller eye diameter (9.8-10.5, vs. 10.8-12.1 % SL); 11+13 (vs. 11+15) vertebrae; cleithrum with a single spine (vs. smooth); proximal arm of fifth ceratobranchial with an oval…

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Opsarius signicaudus (TEJAVEJ, 2012)

April 29th, 2013 — 1:58pm

O. dogarsinghi and O. bernatziki are the only two Southeast Asian congeners to possess a large blotch at the caudal-fin base but in the former the blotch is vertically-orientated and hardly extends onto the fin itself (vs. laterally-elongate and extending onto the basal fin rays) and long (vs. short) barbels, while th…

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Opsarius infrafasciatus (FOWLER, 1934)

April 18th, 2013 — 4:54pm

This species has previously been considered synonymous with both O. ornatus and O. pulchellus but is currently considered to be distinct following (Tejavej, 2012).

It can be distinguished from congeners by a combination of characters including: small caudal spot presen…

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Rasbora tornieri AHL, 1922

March 22nd, 2013 — 9:52am

Type locality is ‘Central Sumatra, Indonesia’, with additional records existing from Cambodia (Mekong drainage), Peninsular Malaysia (Perak River), Sumatra (from the Siak River, Riau province to the Musi River, South Sumatra (Sumatera Selatan) province) and Borneo (south and westwards from the Belait river basin in Brunei Darussalam to the Sambas drainage in West Kalimantan (Kalimantan Barat) province, Indonesia and probably in Sarawak, Malaysia).

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Schistura schultzi (SMITH, 1945)

January 26th, 2013 — 12:58pm

There appears to be some discrepancy between Smith’s original description and Kottelat (1990) in that Smith states the fish is a member of a group of species lacking an ocellus at the upper caudal-fin base, whereas Kottelat mentions the presence of ‘a black spot at upper extremity of caudal-fin base, surrounded by a whitish area’.

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Schistura robertsi KOTTELAT, 1990

January 26th, 2013 — 11:42am

Should not prove difficult to maintain under the correct conditions. We strongly recommend keeping it in a tank designed to resemble a flowing stream or river with a substrate of variably-sized rocks, sand, fine gravel, and some water-worn boulders.

This can be further furnished wit…

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