Pethia stoliczkana

Stoliczkae's barb
P. stoliczkana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Pethia
Species: P. stoliczkana
Binomial name
Pethia stoliczkana
(F. Day, 1871)
Synonyms
  • Barbus stoliczkanus F. Day, 1871
  • Puntius stoliczkanus (F. Day, 1871)
  • Puntius ticto stoliczkanus (F. Day, 1871)

Pethia stoliczkana, Stoliczka's barb, is a freshwater tropical cyprinid fish native to the upper Mekong, Salwen, Irrawaddy, Meklong and upper Charo Phraya basins in the countries of Nepal, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Laos, Thailand, and Sri Lanka.[2]

P. stoliczkana is silver-green with a vertically elongated black blotch behind the gill opening, and a vertically elongated black blotch on the caudal peduncle. The dorsal fin of a sexually active male is red with a black margin and two rows of black spots. It has no barbels and the last simple dorsal ray is serrated posteriorly. It grows to a maximum length of 5 centimetres (2.0 in) SL.[2]

P. stoliczkana is of commercial importance in the fish keeping industry and is used to create hybrid variants of tiger barbs and other barbs.

This fish is one of many barbs undergoing revisions in their taxonomic classification. This species is frequently confused with P. ticto, the Ticto barb or twospot barb, a related and similar species from the same geographic region. The whimsical name "tic-tac-toe barb" is applied to either species.

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References

  1. ↑ Dahanukar, N. 2010. Puntius stoliczkanus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 3 May 2013.
  2. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Pethia stoliczkana" in FishBase. April 2013 version.
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