Bangana
Bangana diplostoma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Labeoninae
Genus: Bangana
Hamilton, 1822
Type species
Cyprinus dero
Hamilton, 1822
Species

21, but disputed (see text)

Synonyms
  • Mirolabeo Chu, 1963
  • Tylognathus Heckel, 1842

Bangana is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. It is distributed across much of southern and eastern Asia. Species live mainly in the flowing waters of tropical and subtropical rivers.[1]

Taxonomy and species

Bangana includes many species formerly classified in the genus Sinilabeo.[1] A number of species often placed in Bangana have again been moved to other genera, notably Altigena, Gymnostomus, Incisilabeo, Speolabeo and Vinalabeo, but to what extent these changes are recognized varies.[2][3][4][5][6]

According to FishBase, there are 15 species in Bangana,[7] but some of these (marked with a star* in list) are placed in Altigena, Gymnostomus or Incisilabeo by Catalog of Fishes, which however recognizes Bangana nukta (Sykes, 1839)[2] — a species placed in Schismatorhynchos by FishBase.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c Liu, K. and W. Zhou. (2009). Bangana brevirostris, a new species of cyprinid fish (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from the Lancang-Jiang (Upper Mekong River) drainage in Yunnan, Southwest China. Zootaxa 1980, 61-68.
  2. ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Bangana". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  3. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Altigena". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  4. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Gymnostomus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  5. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Incisilabeo". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  6. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Speolabeo". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  7. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Bangana in FishBase. May 2019 version.
  8. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Schismatorhynchos in FishBase. May 2019 version.


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