Badidae
The Badidae (the chameleonfishes) are a small family (about 30 species) which has been placed in the order anabantiforme fishes. However, 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.[2] Members of this family are small freshwater fish that are found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Thailand.[3][4][5] The largest is Badis assamensis that reaches a standard length of up to 7.5 cm (3 in),[6] while the smallest, Dario dario, does not exceed 2 cm (0.8 in).[7]
| Badidae | |
|---|---|
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| Badis badis | |
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| Dario dario (male) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Percomorpha |
| Family: | Badidae Barlow, Liem & Wickler, 1968 |
| Genera[1] | |
References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Badidae" in 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.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Badis in FishBase. February 2019 version.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Dario in 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.
- "Badis assamensis". SeriouslyFish. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
- "Dario dario". SeriouslyFish. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
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