Rita (genus)
| Rita Temporal range: 5.3–0 Ma Lower Pliocene to Recent | |
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| Rita rita | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Bagridae |
| Genus: | Rita Bleeker, 1853 |
Rita is a genus of fish in the family Bagridae found in South Asia. These species have a single pair of mandibular barbels, an elongated Weberian apparatus firmly sutured to the basioccipital and the sensory canal on the posttemporal enclosed with bone.[1]
Species
There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus:
- Rita bakalu K. K. Lal, Dwivedi, R. K. Singh, Mohindra, Chandra, Gupta, Dhawan & Jena, 2016 [2]
- Rita chrysea F. Day, 1877
- Rita gogra (Sykes, 1839)
- Rita kuturnee (Sykes, 1839)
- Rita macracanthus H. H. Ng, 2004
- Rita rita (F. Hamilton, 1822)
- Rita sacerdotum J. Anderson, 1879
References
- ↑ Ng, H.H. (2004): Rita macracanthus, a new riverine catfish (Teleostei: Bagridae) from South Asia. Zootaxa, 568: 1–12.
- ↑ Lal, K.K., Dwivedi, A.K., Singh, R.K., Mohindra, V., Chandra, S., Gupta, B.K., Dhawan, S. & Jena, J. (2016): A new bagrid catfish species, Rita bakalu (Siluriformes: Bagridae), from the Godavari River basin, India. Hydrobiologia, First Online: 27 October 2016.
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