Barilius vagra

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Overview

Family : Minnows or carps ; Lives in hill streams with gravelly and rocky bottom (Ref. 41236).

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

Biome: Fresh water . Benthopelagic.

Taxonomy

Ambiguous Synonyms

1. Barilius vagra pakistanicus (non Mirza & Sadiq, 1978)

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Barilius alburnus G�nther, 1868
2. Barilius bleekeri Day, 1872
3. Barilius vagra (Hamilton, 1822)
4. Barilius vagra subsp. vagra (Hamilton, 1822)
5. Cyprinus vagra Hamilton, 1822
6. Leuciscus piscatorius (McClelland, 1842)
7. Leuciscus vagra (Hamilton, 1822)
8. Opsarius bicirratus McClelland, 1842
9. Opsarius isocheilus McClelland, 1839
10. Opsarius piscatorius McClelland, 1842
11. Shacra vagra (Hamilton, 1822)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 29-Nov-2002

Similar Species

Members of the genus Barilius

There are approximately 45 species in this genus:

Zacco platypus · B. bakeri (Malabar Baril) · B. barila (Barred Baril) · B. barna (Barna Baril) · B. barnoides · B. bendelisis (Hamilton's Barila) · B. bendelisis chedra · B. bendilisis · B. bernatziki · B. borneensis · B. canarensis (Jerdon's Baril) · B. caudiocellatus · B. chatricensis · B. dimorphicus · B. dogarsinghi (Manipur Baril) · B. evezardi (Day's Baril) · B. gatensis (River-Carp Baril) · B. huahinensis · B. infrafasciatus · Barbus luapulae · Raiamas guttatus · B. lairokensis · B. mesopotamicus · B. modestus (Indus Baril) · B. moori · B. nanensis · B. naseeri · B. neglectus · B. nelsoni · B. ngawa · B. niloticus occidentalis · B. niloticus voltae · B. ornatus · B. pakistanicus · B. papillatus · B. ponticulus · B. radiolatus · B. senegalensis orientalis · B. shacra (Shacra Baril) · B. shacra naseeri · B. tileo (Tileo Baril) · B. ubangensis chiloangae · B. vagra (Vagra Baril) · B. vagra pakistanicus · B. weynsi

Bibliography

• Menon, A.G.K. (1999). Check list - fresh water fishes of India. p. 234-259. Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Misc. Publ., Occas. Pap. No. 175, 366 p.
• Mirza, M.R. and T. Omer (1984). A key to the identification of the freshwater fishes of Baluchistan. Biologia 30(1):73-91.
• Petr, T. (1999). Coldwater fish and fisheries in Afghanistan. p. 138-148. In T. Petr (ed.) Fish and fisheries at higher altitudes: Asia. FAO Fish. Tech. Pap. No. 385. FAO, Rome. 304 p.
• Rahman, A.K.A. (1989). Freshwater fishes of Bangladesh. Zoological Society of Bangladesh. Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka. 364 p.
• Shrestha, T.K. (1990). Resource ecology of the Himalayan waters. Curriculum Development Centre, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. 645 p.
• Talwar, P.K. and A.G. Jhingran (1991). Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Volume 1. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. 541 p.

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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.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 7, 2006.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed March 20, 2007.
• FishBase
• FishBase 2006.
• Froese, R., and D. Pauly. FishBase 2004. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 18, 2008.
• McCosker, John (from FishBase).

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:

• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• GBIF-Sweden: Fishes (NRM)
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2488330
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-55254
• Fishbase Species ID: 24334
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 89987
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 688822
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 104221

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