Badis (fish) explained

Badis is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Badidae found in South Asia, Southeast Asia and China. These species have a sharp spine on the opercle, soft and spinous parts of the dorsal fin contiguous, three spines in the anal fin, tubed pores in the lateral line, villiform teeth and a rounded caudal fin.^[1] In addition, they differ from the related genus Dario by being larger and displaying more involved parental care.^[2]

Species

There are currently 28 recognized species in this genus, but a comprehensive taxonomic review is necessary as some of the described species are inseparable based on available data.^[3]

• Badis andrewraoi Valdesalici & van der Voort, 2015^[4]
• Badis assamensis C. G. E. Ahl, 1937
• Badis autumnum Valdesalici & van der Voort, 2015^[4]
• Badis badis (F. Hamilton, 1822)
• Badis blosyrus S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
• Badis britzi Dahanukar, Kumkar, U. Katwate & Raghavan, 2015^[5]
• Badis chittagongis S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
• Badis corycaeus S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
• Badis dibruensis Geetakumari & Vishwanath, 2010
• Badis ferrarisi S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
• Badis juergenschmidti I. Schindler & Linke, 2010
• Badis kaladanensis Ramliana L, Lalronunga S, Singh M (2021)^[6]
• Badis kanabos S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
• Badis khwae S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
• Badis kyanos Valdesalici & van der Voort, 2015^[4]
• Badis kyar S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
• Badis laspiophilus Valdesalici & van der Voort, 2015^[7]
• Badis limaakumi J. Praveenraj, 2023^{[8] [9]}
• Badis pallidus S. O. Kullander, Nóren, Rahman & Mollah, 2019^[3]
• Badis pancharatnaensis Basumatary, Choudhury, Baishya, Sarma & Vishwanath, 2016^[10]
• Badis pyema S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2002
• Badis rhabdotus S. O. Kullander, Nóren, Rahman & Mollah, 2019^[3]
• Badis ruber Schreitmüller, 1923
• Badis siamensis Klausewitz, 1957
• Badis singenensis Geetakumari & Kadu, 2011^[1]
• Badis soraya Valdesalici & van der Voort, 2015^[4]
• Badis triocellus Khynriam & Sen, 2013
• Badis tuivaiei Vishwanath & Shanta, 2004

Notes and References

1. Geetakumari, K. & Kadu, K. (2011): Badis singenensis, a new fish species (Teleostei: Badidae) from Singen River, Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 3 (9): 2085-2089.
2. SeriouslyFish: Badis badis. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
3. Kullander, S., Nóren, M., Rahman, M.M. & Mollah, A.R. (2019). Chameleonfishes in Bangladesh: hipshot taxonomy, sibling species, elusive species, and limits of species delimitation (Teleostei: Badidae). Zootaxa 4586(2).
4. Valdesalici, S. & van der Voort, S. (2015): Four new species of the Indo-Burmese genus Badis from West Bengal, India (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Badidae). Zootaxa, 3985 (3): 391–408.
5. 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.
6. Ramliana L, Lalronunga S, Singh M (2021) Badis kaladanensis, a new fish species (Teleostei: Badidae) from Mizoram, northeast India. PLoS ONE 16(7): e0246466. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246466
7. Valdesalici, S. & van der Voort, S. (2015): Badis laspiophilus, a new miniature addition to the ichthyofauna of West Bengal, north-eastern India, with observations on its ecology and preliminary notes on its ethology (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Badidae). Zootaxa, 3986 (2): 193–200.
8. Badis limaakumi, a new species of badid fish from Nagaland, Northeast India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae) . JAYASIMHAN PRAVEENRAJ . Zootaxa . September 2023. 5351 . 3 . 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.3.5.
9. Web site: 2023-09-29 . New fish species found in Milak river . 2023-10-01 . Nagaland Post . en-US.
10. Basumatary, S., Choudhury, H., Baishya, R.A., Sarma, D. & Vishwanath, W. (2016): Badis pancharatnaensis, a new percoid fish species from Brahmaputra River drainage, Assam, India (Teleostei: Badidae). Vertebrate Zoology, 66 (2): 151-156.