Devario Explained

Devario is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae native to the rivers and streams of South and Southeast Asia. These fishes have short barbels and many species having vertical or horizontal stripes. These species consume various small, aquatic insects, crustaceans and worms, as well as, in the case of fry, plankton.

Species

Currently, 46 species in this genus are recognized:

• Devario acrostomus (F. Fang & Kottelat, 1999)
• Devario acuticephala (Hora, 1921)
• Devario aequipinnatus (McClelland, 1839) (Giant danio)
• Devario affinis (Blyth, 1860)
• Devario annandalei (Chaudhuri, 1908)
• Devario anomalus Conway, Mayden & Tang, 2009
• Devario apogon (Chu, 1981)
• Devario apopyris (F. Fang & Kottelat, 1999)
• Devario assamensis (Barman, 1984)
• Devario auropurpureus (Annandale, 1918)
• Devario browni (Regan, 1907)
• Devario chrysotaeniatus (Chu, 1981)
• Devario coxi Kullander, Rahman, Norén & Mollah, 2017
• Devario deruptotalea Ramananda & Vishwanath, 2014^[1]
• Devario devario (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Bengal danio)
• Devario fangae Kullander, 2017^[2]
• Devario fangfangae (Kottelat, 2000)
• Devario fraseri (Hora, 1935) (Fraser's danio)
• Devario gibber (Kottelat, 2000)
• Devario horai (Barman, 1983)
• Devario interruptus (Day, 1870)
• Devario kakhienensis (J. Anderson, 1879)
• Devario kysonensis (Nguyễn, Nguyễn & Mùa, 2010)^[3]
• Devario laoensis (Pellegrin & Fang, 1940)
• Devario leptos (F. Fang & Kottelat, 1999)
• Devario maetaengensis (F. Fang, 1997) (Fire bar danio)
• Devario malabaricus (Jerdon, 1849) (Malabar danio)
• Devario manipurensis (Barman, 1987)
• Devario memorialis Sudasinghe, Pethiyagoda & Meegaskumbura, 2020 (Aranayake devario)^[4]
• Devario micronema (Bleeker, 1863)
• Devario monticola Batuwita, de Silva & Udugampala, 2017 (Mountain danio)
• Devario myitkyinae Kullander, 2017^[2]
• Devario naganensis (Chaudhuri, 1912)
• Devario neilgherriensis (Day, 1867) (Nilgiri danio)
• Devario ostreographus (McClelland, 1839)
• Devario pathirana (Kottelat & Pethiyagoda, 1990) (Barred danio)
• Devario peninsulae (Smith, 1945)
• Devario regina (Fowler, 1934) (Queen danio)
• Devario salmonatus (Kottelat, 2000)
• Devario shanensis (Hora, 1928) (Hora danio)
• Devario sondhii (Hora & Mukerji, 1934)
• Devario spinosus (Day, 1870)
• Devario strigillifer (Myers, 1924)
• Devario suvatti (Fowler, 1939)
• Devario xyrops F. Fang & Kullander, 2009 (Blue moon danio)
• Devario yuensis (Arunkumar & Tombi Singh, 1998)

Notes and References

1. Ramananda, Y. . Vishwanath, W. . 2014. Devario deruptotalea, a new species of cyprinid fish from Manipur, India (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa. 3827. 1. 78–86. 10.11646/zootaxa.3827.1.7. 25081148.
2. Kullander, S.O. . 2017. Devario fangae and Devario myitkyinae, two new species of danionin cyprinids from northern Myanmar (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Danioninae). Zootaxa. 4227. 3. 407–421. 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.7. 28187577. free.
3. Nguyen, V.H. . Nguyen, T.H. . Mua, B.C. . 2010. 10.15625/0866-7160/v32n4.722. A new fish species of the Danio Hamilton, 1822 the species was found in the Ky Son district, the Northern Central province of Nghe An, Vietnam. Vietnam Journal of Biology . 32. 4. 62–68. free.
4. 2020-08-01 . Evolution of Sri Lanka's Giant Danios (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Devario): Teasing apart species in a recent diversification . 2021-08-22 . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 106853 . en . 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106853. Sudasinghe . Hiranya . Pethiyagoda . Rohan . Meegaskumbura . Madhava . 149 . 32417495 . 218680147 .