Overview
Family
: Minnows or carps
;
Family: Minnows or carps
; Inhabits large hill
streams
and rivers
[1].
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Czech:
Tvrdoretka Godavarsk, Tvrdoretka godavarská, Tvrdoretka Nashova
Common Names in English:
Nash Barb, Black Border Tail Orange, Chandkas barb, Nash´s Barb, Nash's barb
Common Names in Finnish:
Messinkihuulibarbi
Common Names in Kannada:
Ogari
Common Names in Malayalam:
Modon, മച്ചല്, മാമള്, മൂടോന്
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
印度紋唇魚, 印度纹唇鱼, 納氏骨紋唇魚, 纳氏骨纹唇鱼
Description
Habitat
Biome: Freshwater [2].
Ecology:
Known to occur in the upper and middle
reaches
of rivers
. It
prefers riffles and pools
. Attains a total length of 18 cm (Talwar
and Jhingran 1991).[2].
List of Habitats
:
- 5 Wetlands (inland)
- 5.1 Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls ) [more info]
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Order:
Cypriniformes
()
- Family:
Family: Minnows or carps; Inhabits
()
- Genus:
Osteochilus
()
- Günther, 1868
- Specific name:
nashii
- Scientific name: - Osteochilus nashii (Day, 1869)
- Specific name:
nashii
- Genus:
Osteochilus
(
- Family:
- Order:
Cypriniformes
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Synonyms
Barbus nashii • Barbus nashii Day • Barbus nashii Day, 1869 • Cyprinion nashii • Cyprinion nashii (Day • Labeo nashii (Day • Osteocheilus godavariensis (Babu Rao • Osteocheilus malabaricus Day • Osteocheilus nashii • Osteocheilus nashii (Day • Osteocheilus nashii (Day, 1869) • Osteochilichthys godavariensis • Osteochilichthys godavariensis Babu Rao • Osteochilichthys nashii • Osteochilichthys nashii (Day • Osteochilus godavariensis (Babu Rao • Osteochilus malabaricus • Osteochilus malabaricus Day • Osteochilus nashii • Scaphiodon nashii (Day
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Day & Rchb.f. In: Gard. Chron. 1869: 78, 1869.
Comment: Year from Eschmeyer[3].
Osteochilus nashii was described
by Day (1869) from Fraserpet River
, at the base
of Coorg hills
, Karnataka,
India as Barbus nashii.
The generic
status of this species has often been debated. In later
years Day (1877) himself consider this species as Scaphiodon
nashii while Hora (1942), and subsequently Talwar and Jhingran
(1991), treated this species as Osteochilus
(Osteochilichthys) nashii. Jayaram (1999) considered this
species as Osteochilichthys nashii
and the species appears as Cyprinion
nashii in Menon (1999). Currently the species is valid
as
Osteochilus nashii.
Menon
(1999) considered another species Osteochilus
godavarensis as a synonym of Osteochilus
nashii without giving any reason and currently this synonymy
is considered as valid. However, the two species are remarkably different
as the former has two pairs of barbels
while the later is completely
devoid of barbels (Talwar and Jhingran 1991, Jayaram 1999) and there
are several other major differences as well (N. Dahanukar pers. obs.).
[2].
Similar Species
Members of the genus Osteochilus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 12 species and subspecies in this genus:
O. brachynotopteroides (Kantaka Barb) · O. enneaporus (Chandkas Barb) · O. hasseltii (Hasselt's Bonylip Barb) · O. longidorsalis (Long Finned Barb) · O. melanopleura (Pa Nok Khao) · O. melanopleurus (Pa Nok Khao) · O. microcephalus (Bonylip Barb) · O. nashii (Nash Barb) · O. schlegeli (Giant Sharkminnow) · O. schlegelii (Giant Sharkminnow) · O. thomassi (Konti Barb) · O. vittatus (Soft-Finned Carp)
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Further Reading
- Bhat, A. 2004. Patterns in the distribution of freshwater fishes in rivers of Central Western Ghats, India and their associations with environmental gradients. Hydrobiologia 529: 83?97.
- Bhimachar, B.S and Rao, A.S. 1941. The fishes of the Mysore state 1. Fishes of Kadur District. Journal of University of Mysore 1: 141-153.
- Biju C. R. 2005. Habitat and Distribution of Hillstream fishes of Northern Kerala. Department of Zoology, Mahatma Gandhi University.
- Chhapgar, B.F. and Manakadan, R. 2000. Ecology of Hill Streams of Western Ghats with Special Reference to Fish Community. US Fish and Wildlife Service & Bombay Natural History Society, Bombay.
- Dahanukar, N., Raut, R. and Bhat, A. 2004. Distribution, endemism and threat status of freshwater fishes in the Western Ghats of India. Journal of Biogeography 31: 123-136.
- David, A. 1956. Studies on pollution of Bhadra river fisheries at Bhadravti (Mysore state) with industrial effluents. Proceedings of the National Institute of Science, India 22: 132-160.
- David, A. 1963. Studies on fish and fisheries of the Godavary and the Krishna river systems - Part 1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 33(2): 263-286.
- Day & Rchb.f. In: Gard. Chron. 1869: 78, 1869.
- Day, F. 1869. Observations on Indian fishes. Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London 1868(3): 580-585.
- Day, F. 1877. The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Part 3.: 369-552.
- Easa, P.S. and Basha S.C. 1995. A survey on the habitat and distribution of stream fishes in the Kerala part of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Thrissur.
- Hora, S.L. 1942. Notes on the fishes of the Indian Museum. XLII. On the systematic position of the indian species of Scaphiodon Heckel. Records of the Indian Museum 44(1): 1-10.
- IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.1). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 16 June 2011).
- Jadhav B.V, Kharat S.S, Raut R.N, Paingankar M & Dahanukar N. 2011. Freshwater fish fauna of Koyna River, northern Western Ghats, Indi. Journal of Threatened Taxa 3(1): 1449-145.
- Jayaram, K.C. 1999. The freshwater fishes of the Indian region. Narendra Publishing House, Delhi.
- Kharat, S., Dahanukar, N., Raut, R. and Mahabaleshwarkar, M. 2003. Long term changes in freshwater fish species composition in North Western Ghats, Pune district. Current Science 84(6): 816-822.
- Kurup, B.M., Radhakrishnan, K.V. and Manojkumar, T.G. 2004. Biodiversity Status of Fishes Inhabiting Rivers of Kerala (South India) With Special Reference to Endemism, Threats and Conservation Measures. In: R.L. Welcomme and T. Petr (eds), Proceedings of the second international symposium on the management of large rivers for fisheries 2: 316. Cambodia.
- Menon, A.G.K. 1999. Check list - fresh water fishes of India..
- Mukerji, D.D. 1931. On a small collection of fish from the Bhavani River (S. India). Journal of Bombay Natural History Society 35(1): 162-171.
- Raghavan, R. 2010. Ornamental fisheries and trade in Kerala. In: Sonnenschein, L. and Benziger, A. (eds), Conservation of Fishes in Kerala, India, pp. 169-187. World Aquarium, St. Louis.
- Rajan, S. 1955. Notes on a collection of fish from the headwaters of the Bhavani River, South India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 53: 44-48.
- Rajan, S. 1963. Ecology of the fishes of river Pykara and Moyar (Nilgiris), Tamil Nadu. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences 58(5): 291-323.
- Rao, B.M. 1977. A new cyprinid fish of the genus Osteochilichthys (Hora) from India. Science and Culture 43(11): 491-493.
- Shahnawaz, A and Venkateshwarlu, M. 2009. A checklist of fishes from the Tunga and Bhadra rivers, Karnataka, India with a special note on their biodiversity status. Current Biotica 3(2): 232-243.
- Shahnawaz, A., Venkateshwarlu, M., Somashekar, D. S. and Santosh, K. 2010. Fish diversity with relation to water quality of Bhadra River of Western Ghats (INDIA). Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 161: 83-91.
- Shaji, C.P. and Easa, P.S. 1995. Freshwater fish diversity in Wayanad, Kerala, South India. Journal of Zoological Society of Kerala 5(1&2): 30-36.
- Shaji, C.P., Easa, P.S. and Basha, S.C. 1995. Fresh water fish diversity in Aralam Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala, South India. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society 92: 360-363.
- Sreekantha., Gururaja, K. V. and Ramachandra, T.V. 2007. Nestedness pattern in the freshwater fishes of the Western Ghats: an indication of stream islands along riverscapes. Current Science 95(12): 1707-1714.
- Suter, M. 1944. New records of fish from Poona. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society 44(3): 408-414.
- Talwar, P.K. and A.G. Jhingran (1991). Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Volume 1. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. 541 p.
- Talwar, P.K. and Jhingran, A.G. 1991. Inland Fishes of India and Adjacent Countries. A.A. Balkema/Rotterdam.
- Thomas, R.K., George, M.J and Biju, C.R. 2002. Freshwater fishes of Southern Kerala with notes on the distribution of endemic and endangered species. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 99(1): 47-53.
- Wagh, G.K and Ghate, H.V. 2003. Freshwater fish fauna of the rivers Mula and Mutha, Pune, Maharashtra. Zoos Print Journal 18(1): 977-981.
Notes
Contributors
- Ali, A., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. 2011. Osteochilus nashii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 03February2012.
- 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-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- FishBase 2006.
- FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- McEachran, John (from FishBase).
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:
- FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 134040
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-54836
- Fishbase Species ID: 24087
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 689589
- IUCN ID: 229005
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 119092
Footnotes
- 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. [back]
- Ali, A., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. 2011. Osteochilus nashii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 03 February 2012. [back]
- Eschmeyer, W.N., Editor (2002). Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of August 2002. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in December 2001. [back]
