Sundadanio

Sundadanio
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Sundadanio
Kottelat & K. E. Witte, 1999
Type species
Rasbora axelrodi
Brittan, 1976

Sundadanio is a genus of cyprinid fishes from freshwater habitats, typically peat swamps and streams, in Borneo and Sumatra (as well as nearby smaller islands) in southeast Asia. They are very small, but still larger than their close relatives Paedocypris.[1]

Species

There are currently eight recognized species in this genus:[2]

References

  1. Rüber, Lukas; Kottelat, Maurice; Tan, Heok Hui; Ng, Peter KL; Britz, Ralf (2007). "Evolution of miniaturization and the phylogenetic position of Paedocypris, comprising the world's smallest vertebrate". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7: 1–10. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-38. PMC 1838906Freely accessible. PMID 17355618.
  2. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Sundadanio in FishBase. February 2013 version.


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