Badidae | |
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Badis badis | |
Dario dario (male) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Clade: | Percomorpha |
Family: | Badidae Barlow, Liem & Wickler, 1968 |
Genera | |
The Badidae or the chameleonfishes are a small family (containing about 30 species) or ray-finned fishes which has been placed in the order Anabantiformes. Despite their apparent affinity to other Anabantiforms, the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the family as being a sister to the Anabantiformes, along with the Nandidae and Pristolepididae in an unnamed and unranked but monophyletic clade which is a sister to the Ovalentaria within the wider Percomorpha. Members of this family are small freshwater fish that are found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Thailand. The largest is Badis assamensis that reaches a standard length of up to 7.5 cm (3 in), while the smallest, Dario dario, does not exceed 2 cm (0.8 in).
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Badidae". FishBase. February 2013 version.
- J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 394. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2022-06-01. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Badis". FishBase. February 2019 version.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Dario". FishBase. February 2019 version.
- Dahanukar, N.; Kumkar, P.; Katwate, U.; Raghavan, R. (2015). "Badis britzi, a new percomorph fish (Teleostei: Badidae) from the Western Ghats of India". Zootaxa. 3941 (3): 429–436. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3941.3.9. PMID 25947522. S2CID 7291721.
- "Badis assamensis". SeriouslyFish. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
- "Dario dario". SeriouslyFish. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
Taxon identifiers | |
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Badidae |
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