Devario fangfangae

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: Devario
Species: Devario fangfangae

Name

Devario fangfangae (Kottelat, 2000)

Holotype: NRM 44880, 66.7 mm. Paratypes: CMK 12668 (6), 12798 (41); LARRI uncat. (3), uncat. (15); NRM 44881 (2); ZRC 45300 (15).

Type location: Nam Phao at waterfall immediately downriver of border post on road from Lak Sao to Vinh (Vietnam), 18°23'00" N, 150°09'20"E, Bolikhamxai Province, Laos.

Etymology: "Named for Fang Fang Kullander, who has published several papers on the systematics of Danio, in appreciation of her help." [Kottelat, 2000]

Synonyms

• Danio fangfangae Kottelat, 2000

References

Primary references

• Kottelat, M. 2000. Diagnoses of a new genus and 64 new species of fishes from Laos (Teleostei: Cyprinidae, Balitoridae, Bagridae, Syngnathidae, Chaudhuriidae and Tetraodontidae). Journal of South Asian Natural History 5(1): 37–82. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

Links

• Danio fangfangae in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on August 30, 2018.
• Devario fangfangae in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Devario fangfangae – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).