Rasbora johannae
Species of fish
Rasbora johannae | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Cyprinidae |
Subfamily: | Danioninae |
Genus: | Rasbora |
Species: | R. johannae |
Binomial name | |
Rasbora johannae Siebert & Guiry, 1996[1] |
Rasbora johannae is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Rasbora. It is endemic to Kalimantan. This species reaches a length of 3.8 cm (1.5 in).
Etymology
The fish is named in memory of British politician Joan Helen Vickers (1907-1994), a British Conservative London Councillor and Member of Parliament and later the chairman of the Anglo-Indonesian Society.[2]
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Rasbora johannae" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family SUNDADANIONIDAE and DANIONIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
- Siebert, D.J. and S. Guiry, 1996. Rasbora johannae (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), a new species of the R. trifasciata-complex from Kalimantan, Indonesia. Cybium 29(4):395-404.
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