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Myanmar Freshwater Fishes

 

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Family Cyprinidae

 

Minnows and carps

 

The numbers of species present in the family Cyprinidae is very large compared to the other families. There are more than 22,000 species worldwide. This family of inland water fishes is distributed in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

The fishes from the family Cyprnidae have single gill openings on each side, pelvic fin abdominal.

Body is generally compressed, the abdomen rounded or sharp edge. Body has scales (exceptional case Sawbwa resplenden). Cyprinids have no teeth in the jaws, but they have pharyngeal jaws and teeth.

In Myanmar, about 37 genera including about 80 species have been recorded. (Fang Fang, Sven O. Kullander, Carl J. Ferraris, 2000. Nga Myanmar Fishes, http://www.nrm.se/theswedishmuseumofnaturalhistory/researchandcollections/search.52_en.html?query=Myanmar&x=0&y=0) Most of the ornamental fishes come from this family Cyprinidae. The specie of the genera, Danio, Rasbora, Microrasbora, Garra, etc. are small and intermediate sizes, colorful, and lively in the tank, and thus very popular in the ornamental fish market in the world.

 

 

List of ornamental fishes from the family Cyprinidae

 

 

Family       Cyprinidae

                

                 ( Cyprinid Fishes )

 

Barilius species

 

 

Barilius barnoides  Vinelguerra, 1890

 

Barilius dogarsinghi  Hora, 1921

 

 

 

Chela species

 

 

Chela laubuca (Hamilton,1822)

 

Danio species

 

Danio dangila  Hamilton-Buchanan, 1822

 

Danio albolineatus (Blyth, 1860)

 

Danio erythromicron  (Annandale, 1918)

 

Danio nigrofasciatus  (Day, 1870)

 

Danio choprai Hora, 1928

 

Danio feegradei  Hora, 1937

 

Danio kyathit Fang Fang, 1998

 

Danio margaritatus (Robert, 2007)

 

Danio sp TW01

 

Danio sp TW02

 

Danio sp TW03

 

Danio sp ( Hikari )

 

Devario species

 

Devario affinis  (Blyth, 1860)

 

Devario kakhienensis  (Anderson, 1879)

 

Devario browni  (Regan, 1907)

 

Devario annandale  (Chaudhuri, 1908)

 

Devario strigillifer  (Myers, 1924)

 

Devario shanensis  (Hora, 1928)

 

Devario sondhii  (Hora & Mukerji, 1934)

 

 

Garra species

 

Garra flavatra Kullander & Fang Fang, 2004

 

Microrasbora species

 

Microrasbora rubescens  Annandale, 1918

 

Microrasbora kubotai  Kottlet, 1999

 

Microrasbora nana  Kottlet, 1999

 

Oreichthys species

 

Oreichthys sp.  ( Northern Myanmar )

 

Puntius species

 

Puntius binduchitra  Hora 1937

 

Puntius sp. ( Shan State ) Common name. Odessa Barb

 

Puntius sp. ( Ayeyawady ) Common name. Red-lip Barb

 

Puntius stoliczkanus  Day, 1871

 

Rasbora species

 

 

Rasbora daniconius  (Hamilton, 1822)

 

Rasbora rasbora  Hamilton, 1882

 

Sawbwa species

   

 

Sawbwa resplendens  Annandale, 1918

 

 

 

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