Danio margaritatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyprinoidei
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cyprinoidei

Familia: Danionidae
Subfamilia: Danioninae
Genus: Danio
Species: Danio margaritatus

Danio margaritatus (Roberts, 2007)

Holotype: ZRC 50706. Paratypes: CAS 224434 (40); ZRC 50707 (1), 50708 (303); USNM 388753 (40).

Type locality: Pools at foot of mountain near Hopong town 30 kilometers east of Taunggyi, Myanmar, elevation 1040 meters.

Roberts, T.R. 2007. The "celectial pearl danio", a new genus and species of colourful minute Cyprinid fish from Myanmar (Pisces: Cypriniformes). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(1): 131–140. PDF.
Conway, K.W., Chen, W.-J. & Mayden, R.L. 2008. The “Celestial Pearl danio” is a miniature Danio (s.s) (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae): evidence from morphology and molecules. Zootaxa 1686: 1–28. PDF.

Celestichthys margaritatus in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on August 31, 2018.
Danio margaritatus in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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