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Boraras 
Summary
Boraras is a small genus of Asian cyprinid fishes.
| Boraras | |
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| least rasbora, (Boraras urophthalmoides) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Danioninae |
| Genus: | Boraras Kottelat & Vidthayanon, 1993[1] |
| Species | |
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6, see text. | |
Species edit
There are currently six valid species:[2]
- Boraras brigittae (D. Vogt, 1978) (Chili rasbora, Mosquito rasbora)
- Boraras maculatus (Duncker, 1904) (Dwarf rasbora)
- Boraras merah (Kottelat, 1991) (Phoenix rasbora)
- Boraras micros Kottelat & Vidthayanon, 1993
- Boraras naevus Conway & Kottelat, 2011[3] (Strawberry rasbora)
- Boraras urophthalmoides (Kottelat, 1991) (Least rasbora, Exclamation point rasbora)
References edit
- ^ Bailly, Nicolas (2014). "Boraras Kottelat & Vidthayanon, 1993". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Boraras in FishBase. August 2011 version.
- ^ KEVIN W. CONWAY; MAURICE KOTTELAT (24 August 2011). "Boraras naevus, a new species of miniature and sexually dichromatic freshwater fish from peninsular Thailand (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae)". Zootaxa. 3002 (1): 45. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.3002.1.4. ISSN 1175-5334. Wikidata Q97567360.
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