Raiamas

Raiamas bola

Raiamas is a genus of living predatory carp fish that is found in tropical South and Southeast Asia and in Africa.

Features

Raiamas species have an elongated flattened body laterally and are 5 to 30 cm long. Your mouth is large, the maxillary long and usually extends to behind the eyes center. The caudal fin is forked, the anal fin longer than the dorsal fin. The dorsal fin is generally without flashy colors and patterns. Above the [ ventral ] n some sit enlarged pointed scales. Males and females differ only slightly. The tuberculate in males is weak.

Species

There are 16 kinds of valid described. Probably the species is not monotypic. The African Raiamas species are probably closer to the African Bärblingsgattungen Chelaethiops, Leptocypris, Mesobola, Neobola and Opsaridium used as with the Asian Raiamas species that are basal to the African Group.

Asian species

  • Raiamas bola (Hamilton, 1822) ( type species )
  • Raiamas guttatus ( F. Day, 1870)

African species

  • Raiamas ansorgii ( Boulenger, 1910)
  • Raiamas batesii ( Boulenger, 1914)
  • Raiamas buchholzi (Peters, 1876)
  • Raiamas christyi ( Boulenger, 1920)
  • Raiamas kheeli Stiassny, Schelly & Schliewen, 2006
  • Raiamas levequei Howes & Teugels, 1989
  • Raiamas longirostris ( Boulenger, 1902)
  • Raiamas moorii ( Boulenger, 1900)
  • Raiamas nigeriensis ( Daget, 1959)
  • Raiamas salmolucius ( Nichols & Griscom, 1917)
  • Raiamas scarciensis Howes & Teugels, 1989
  • Raiamas senegalensis ( Steindachner, 1870)
  • Raiamas shariensis ( Fowler, 1949)
  • Raiamas steindachneri ( Pellegrin, 1908)
David Starr Jordan George Albert Boulenger John Treadwell Nichols Franz Steindachner Henry Weed Fowler Jacques Pellegrin Digital Object Identifier FishBase
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