Badidae Explained

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.[1] Members of this family are small freshwater fish that are found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Thailand.[2] The largest is Badis assamensis that reaches a standard length of up to 7.5abbr=onNaNabbr=on,[3] while the smallest, Dario dario, does not exceed 2abbr=onNaNabbr=on.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Fishes of the World . 5th . J. S. Nelson . T. C. Grande . M. V. H. Wilson . 2016 . 394 . Wiley . 978-1-118-34233-6 . 2019-12-10 . 2022-06-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220601121150/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ . dead .
  2. 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 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.3.9 . 25947522 . 7291721 .
  3. Web site: SeriouslyFish . Badis assamensis . 16 February 2019.
  4. Web site: SeriouslyFish . Dario dario . 16 February 2019.