Abbottina rivularis

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• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• Bibliography
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• Notes

Overview

Family : Minnows or carps ; Inhabits shallow zones of lentic rivers and lakes with sandy or muddy bottoms (Ref. 12819).

Common Names

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Description

Family Cyprinidae

Distribution: North America (northern Canada to southern Mexico), Africa, and Eurasia . Pharynx with 1-3 rows of teeth, each row with a maximum of 8 teeth. Usually thin lips , plicae or papillae absent; mouth sometimes suckerlike (Garra and Labeo). With or without barbels . Premaxilla usually borders the upper jaw making the maxilla entirely or almost entirely excluded from the gape. Usually protrusible upper jaw. Dorsal fin with spinelike rays in some. Primitive number of chromosomes 2n=50, some with 48; polyploidy exists. Maximum length at least 2.5 m to probably 3 m in Catlocarpio siamensis; many species less than 5 cm. Mainly non-guarders, but in some species males build nests and/or protect the eggs .The family Cyprinidae belongs to the Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes ) and the Order Cypriniformes. It contains 210 genera and 2010 species. It may be found in Brackish , and Freshwater environments and is primarily Primary freshwater. Many members of this family are used in the aquarium trade. Reproductively, most members of this family are nonguarders. The main mode of swimming of adult fish in this family is subcarangiform. Compared with other fish, the activity level of this family tends to be normal. Members of this family have been dated back to the Eocene epoch of the Tertiary period. This family may be found from 70° n to 34° s and 150° w to 170° e. Etymology of this family name : Greek, kyprinos = goldfish .

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,266 meters (0 to 7,434 feet).Mean = 652.940 meters (2,142.192 feet), Standard Deviation = 796.110 based on 68 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.

Biome: Fresh water . Benthopelagic.

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Abbottina psegma Jordan & Fowler, 1903
2. Abbottina rivularis (Basilewsky, 1855)
3. Gobio rivularis Basilewsky, 1855
4. Pseudogobio rivularis (Basilewsky, 1855)
5. Tylognathus sinensis Kner, 1867

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 03-May-1998

Similar Species

Members of the genus Abbottina

There are approximately 6 species in this genus:

A. binhi · A. liaoningensis · A. obtusirostris · A. rivularis (Amur False Gudgeon) · A. ruvularis · A. springeri

Bibliography

• Bogutskaya, N.G. and A.M. Naseka (1996). Cyclostomata and fishes of Khanka Lake drainage area (Amur river basin). An annotated check-list with comments on taxonomy and zoogeography of the region. Zool. Inst. Russ. Acad. Sci. :89 p.
• Coad, B.W. (1995). Freshwater fishes of Iran. Acta Sci. Nat. Acad. Sci. Brno. 29(1):1-64.
• Dawson, C.E. (1985). Indo-Pacific pipefishes (Red Sea to the Americas). The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA.
• Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, USA. 2905. ISBN: 0-940228-47-5.
• Kamilov, G. and Zh.U. Urchinov (1995). Fish and fisheries in Uzbekistan under the impact of irrigated agriculture. p. 10-41 In T. Petr (ed.) Inland fisheries under the impact of irrigated agriculture: Central Asia. FAO Fisheries Circular No. 894.
• Kottelat, M. (2001). Fishes of Laos. WHT Publications Ltd., Colombo 5, Sri Lanka. 198 p.
• Masuda, H., K. Amaoka, C. Araga, T. Uyeno and T. Yoshino (1984). The fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Vol. 1 (text). Tokai University Press, Tokyo, Japan. 437 p. (text), 370 pls.
• Mitrofanov, V.P. and T. Petr (1999). Fish and fisheries in the Altai, Northern Tien Shan and Lake Balkhash (Kazakhstan). p. 149-167. In T. Petr (ed.) Fish and fisheries at higher altitudes: Asia. FAO Fish. Tech. Pap. No. 385. FAO, Rome. 304 p.
• Vidthayanon, C. and M. Kottelat (1995). First record of Abbotina rivularis (Cyprinidae: Gobioninae) from the Mekong Basin. Jap. J. Ichthyol. 41(4):463-465.

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Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• FishBase 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed October 28, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 18, 2008.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 09, 2007:

• FishBase, FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Royal Ontario Museum, Fish specimens
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Fishes
• University of Washington Burke Museum, University of Washington Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2486211
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-52764
• Fishbase Species ID: 22903
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13551278
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 639367
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 101030

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