Osteobrama is a genus of cyprinid fish found in southern Asia consisting of eight species. The name is derived from the Greek word osteon, meaning "bone", and the Old French word breme, a type of freshwater fish.
| Osteobrama | |
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| Osteobrama alfredianus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Genus: | Osteobrama Heckel, 1843 |
| Type species | |
| Cyprinus cotio Hamilton, 1822
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10, see text. | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Smiliogaster Bleeker, 1860 | |
Species
editThere are 10 valid species in the genus:[2][3]
- Osteobrama alfredianus (Valenciennes, 1844)
- Osteobrama bakeri (F. Day, 1873)
- Osteobrama belangeri (Valenciennes, 1844)
- Osteobrama bhimensis Singh & Yazdani, 1992
- Osteobrama cotio (F. Hamilton, 1822)
- Osteobrama cunma (F. Day, 1888)
- Osteobrama feae Vinciguerra, 1890
- Osteobrama neilli (F. Day, 1873)
- Osteobrama peninsularis Silas, 1952
- Osteobrama tikarpadaensis Shangningam, Rath, Tudu & Kosygin, 2020[4]
- Osteobrama vigorsii (Sykes, 1839)
Fishbase formerly regarded O. bhimensis as a synonym of O. vigorsii, and also treats the former subspecies of O. cotio as distinct species: O. cunma and O. peninsularis,[5][6] which is not supported by ITIS[7] or WoRMS.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Bailly, Nicolas (2018). "Osteobrama Heckel, 1843". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Osteobrama". FishBase. March 2024 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Osteobrama". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
- ^ BUNGDON SHANGNINGAM; SHIBANANDA RATH; ASHA KIRAN TUDU; LAISHRAM KOSYGIN (10 January 2020). "A new species of Osteobrama (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Mahanadi River, India with a note on the validity of O. dayi". Zootaxa. 4722 (1): zootaxa.4722.1.6. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4722.1.6. PMID 32230640.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Osteobrama cotio". FishBase. December 2017 version.
- ^ Manorama Maisnam; Suresh Chandra; Kuldeep K. Lal; Rajeev K. Singh; Vindhya Mohindra (2017). "Characterization of threatened endemic fish Osteobrama belangeri (Valenciennes, 1844) and related species from North-East India based on morphological and molecular analysis". Mitochondrial DNA Part A. 29 (6): 919–932. doi:10.1080/24701394.2017.1389914. PMID 29092681. S2CID 205974731.
- ^ "Osteobrama". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 June 2007.
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