Rhodeus

Bitterling, males

Rhodeus (Greek rhodeios - rose ) is a genus of bitterling ( Acheilognathinae ). The majority of its member species in East and Southeast Asia at home, two species of bitterling and Rhodeus meridionalis are also native to Europe.

Features

The small remaining carp fish, only a kind of reached a standard length of more than ten centimeters, have a small, slightly under constant and somewhat obliquely standing foot without barbels. The high-backed and laterally flattened body and cover large elliptical scales. The approach of the dorsal fin is slightly behind the pelvic fins. The anal fin begins in the amount of the last third of the dorsal fin. The most recent undivided hard radiation of dorsal and anal fin is strong, some thorn -like, is formed. The lateral line is incomplete and only the first scales are pierced by lateral line canals. The strong pharyngeal teeth are, as with all bitterlings, single row arranged with five teeth on the gill arch. The gills Reuse is formed from six to 17 short Brachiospinen.

Fins formula: Dorsal II-IV/7-13, Anal II-IV/6-16

Species

• Bitter (Rhodeus amarus ) ( Bloch, 1782 )
• Rhodeus amurensis ( Vronsky, 1967)
• Rhodeus atremius ( Jordan & Thompson, 1914)
• Rhodeus colchicus Bogutskaya & Komlev, 2001
• Rhodeus fangi ( Miao, 1934)
• Rhodeus haradai Arai, Suzuki & Shen, 1990
• Rhodeus hondae ( Jordan and Metz, 1913)
• Rhodeus laoensis Kottelat, Doi & Musikasinthorn, 1998
• Rhodeus lighti ( Wu, 1931)
• Rhodeus mantschuricus Mori, 1934
• Rhodeus meridionalis ( Karaman, 1924)
• Rhodeus monguonensis (Li, 1989)
• Rhodeus notatus Nichols, 1929
• Rhodeus ocellatus ( Kner, 1866)
• Rhodeus pseudosericeus Arai, Jeon & Ueda, 2001
• Rhodeus rheinardti ( Tirant, 1883)
• Rhodeus sciosemus ( Jordan & Thompson, 1914)
• Rhodeus sericeus ( Pallas, 1776)
• Rhodeus sinensis Günther, 1868
• Rhodeus smithii ( Regan, 1908)
• Rhodeus spinal Oshima, 1926
• Rhodeus suigensis ( Mori, 1935)
• Rhodeus typus ( Bleeker, 1863)
• Rhodeus uyekii ( Mori, 1935)