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Opsarius Signicaudus
''Opsarius'' is a genus of fish. Its representatives can be found in a variety of countries in South East Asia. These countries include Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, India, and China. Certain species of ''Opsarius'' are considered endemic to their respective habitats; such as ''Opsarius cocsa'' and ''Opsarius maculatus'' which are endemic to India. Species ''Opsarius'' includes the following species: * ''Opsarius ardens'' Knight, A. Rai, D’Souza & Vijaykrishnan, 2015 * ''Opsarius arunachalensis'' (Nath, Dam & Kumar, 2010) * ''Opsarius bakeri'' (Day, 1865) * ''Opsarius barna'' (Hamilton, 1822) (Barna baril) * ''Opsarius barnoides'' ( Vinciguerra, 1890) * ''Opsarius bendelisis'' (Hamilton, 1807) * '' Opsarius bernatziki'' ( Koumans 1937) * '' Opsarius canarensis'' Jerdon, 1849 (Jerdon's baril) * '' Opsarius caudiocellatus'' ( X. L. Chu, 1984) * '' Opsarius cocsa'' (Hamilton, 1822) * ''Opsarius cyanochlorus'' ( Plamoottil & Vineeth, 2020) * ''Opsarius dimorphicus'' ( Tila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opsarius Pulchellus
''Opsarius pulchellus'', is a species of fish in the family Danionidae, with the largest individual recorded being 11 cm long. "Pulchellus" is a Latin diminutive meaning "beautiful". Range ''O. pulchellus'' inhabits Indochina (Mekong River) and a small part of China (along the Mekong). They are mainly found in fast flowing rivers or clear hill streams. Diet ''O. pulchellus'' feeds mainly on the surface of the water, feeding on dead insects that land on the surface. Threats ''O. pulchellus'' are rarely found in markets, but are exploited by subsistence fisheries and occasionally for the aquarium trade. Habitat degradation through sedimentation increase (e.g. by large-scale damming) may become problematic in the future, especially along the Mekong and Chao Phraya The Chao Phraya River is the major river in Thailand, with its low alluvial plain forming the centre of the country. It flows through Bangkok and then into the Gulf of Thailand. Etymology Written evid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and Borders of China, borders fourteen countries by land across an area of nearly , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest country by land area. The country is divided into 33 Province-level divisions of China, province-level divisions: 22 provinces of China, provinces, 5 autonomous regions of China, autonomous regions, 4 direct-administered municipalities of China, municipalities, and 2 semi-autonomous special administrative regions. Beijing is the country's capital, while Shanghai is List of cities in China by population, its most populous city by urban area and largest financial center. Considered one of six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opsarius Barnoides
''Opsarius barnoides'' is a fish in genus ''Opsarius'' of the family Danionidae. It is found in Myanmar and China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after .... References barnoides Fish of Myanmar Freshwater fish of China Taxa named by Decio Vinciguerra Fish described in 1890 {{Danioninae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
Francis Buchanan (15 February 1762 – 15 June 1829), later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, was a Scottish surgeon, surveyor and botanist who made significant contributions as a geographer and zoologist while living in India. He did not assume the name of Hamilton until three years after his retirement from India. The standard botanical author abbreviation Buch.-Ham. is applied to plants and animals he described, though today the form "Hamilton, 1822" is more usually seen in ichthyology and is preferred by Fishbase. Early life Francis Buchanan was born at Bardowie, Callander, Perthshire where Elizabeth, his mother, lived on the estate of Branziet; his father Thomas, a physician, came in Stirling, Spittal and claimed the chiefdom of the name of Clan Buchanan, Buchanan and owned the Leny estate. Francis Buchanan matriculated in 1774 and received an MA in 1779. As he had three older brothers, he had to earn a living from a profession, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opsarius Barna
The Barna baril (''Opsarius barna'') is a fish in genus ''Opsarius'' of the family Danionidae. It is found in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has .... Description This species can grow to around 15 cm and inhabits clear gravelly hill streams. References Opsarius Fish of Bangladesh Fish of India Fish described in 1822 Taxa named by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton {{Danioninae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Day
Francis Talbot Day (2 March 1829 – 10 July 1889) was an army surgeon and naturalist in the Madras Presidency who later became the Inspector-General of Fisheries in British Raj, India and British rule in Burma, Burma. A pioneer ichthyologist, he Species description, described more than three hundred fishes in the two-volume work on ''The Fishes of India''. He also wrote the fish volumes of the Fauna of British India series. He was also responsible for the introduction of trout into the Nilgiri hills, for which he received a medal from the French Acclimatisation society, Societe d'Acclimatation. Many of his fish specimens are distributed across museums with only a small fraction deposited in the British Museum (Natural History Museum, London), an anomaly caused by a prolonged conflict with Albert Günther, the keeper of zoology there. Biography Day was born in Maresfield, East Sussex, the third son of William and Ann Elliott née Le Blanc. The family estate included two thousa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opsarius Bakeri
''Opsarius bakeri'' is a fish in genus ''Opsarius'' of the family Danionidae. Distribution It is found in many small mountain streams in Western Ghats of Kerala, as well as Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary in Karnataka, and the Chittar, Periyar, and Pampa river basins in Tamil Nadu. Description The flanks are marked by a single row of bluish-green blotches along the length of the body, which get smaller as the fish ages. Dorsal and anal fins have a white margin. Males develop orange colouration below the lateral line, and nuptial tubercles Nuptial tubercles or breeding tubercles (also called pearl organs or nuptial efflorescence) are noticeable skin roughness or horny nodules that form on male fish during breeding. They are made of keratin, the same material as hair, hooves, and ... on the head. Max length is . Etymology The fish is named in honor of British missionary Henry Baker, Jr. (1819–1878), who supplied several specimens from Mundikyum, Cochin, India. Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anil Kumar (ichthyologist)
Anil Kumar (born 1958) is an Indian-American former senior partner and director at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he co-founded McKinsey's offices in Silicon Valley and India and created its Internet practice (representing a quarter of McKinsey's business at the time) among others. Kumar is additionally the co-founder of the Indian School of Business with Rajat Gupta and the creator of two different kinds of outsourcing. He graduated from IIT Bombay in India, Imperial College in the UK, and The Wharton School in the US. In 2010 he pleaded guilty to insider trading in a dramatic "descent from the pinnacle of the business world." He was the government's first cooperator and most important witness "in two of the most important securities fraud trials in history" against close friends and business partners Raj Rajaratnam, the billionaire founder of the Galleon Group family of hedge funds, and Rajat Gupta, the former head of McKinsey and Company and a board ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opsarius Arunachalensis
''Opsarius'' is a genus of fish. Its representatives can be found in a variety of countries in Southeast Asia, South East Asia. These countries include Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, India, China, and China. Certain species of ''Opsarius'' are considered Endemism, endemic to their respective habitats; such as ''Opsarius cocsa'' and ''Opsarius maculatus'' which are endemic to India. Species ''Opsarius'' includes the following species: * ''Opsarius ardens'' J. D. Marcus Knight, Knight, Ashwin Rai, A. Rai, Ronald K. P. D’Souza, D’Souza & Balaji Vijaykrishnan, Vijaykrishnan, 2015 * ''Opsarius arunachalensis'' (P. Nath, Nath, D. Dam, Dam & Anil Kumar (ichthyologist), Kumar, 2010) * ''Opsarius bakeri'' (Francis Day, Day, 1865) * ''Opsarius barna'' (Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, Hamilton, 1822) (Barna baril) * ''Opsarius barnoides'' (Decio Vinciguerra, Vinciguerra, 1890) * ''Opsarius bendelisis'' (Hamilton, 1807) * ''Opsarius bernatziki'' (Frederik Petrus Koumans, Koumans 1937) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balaji Vijaykrishnan
Balaji may refer to: Religion * Venkateswara, one of the incarnations of Vishnu ** Balaji Mandir (other), a list of temples Organisations * Balaji Wafers, a FMCG group based in Rajkot, Gujarat * Balaji Institute of Modern Management Pune, a business school in Pune, India * Balaji Motion Pictures, a film production house in Mumbai, India * Balaji Telefilms, a film production house in Mumbai, India People * Balaji, an Indian name (for persons with the name see ) * Balaji K. Kumar, American/Indian film director * Balaji Srinivasan, American entrepreneur, investor, and futurist * K. Balaji (1934-2009), South Indian producer and actor * Suchir Balaji (1998-2024), artificial intelligence researcher and former employee of OpenAI, known for his whistleblowing activities related to artificial intelligence ethics. Other uses * Balaji (leopard), a leopard in the Sri Venkateswara Zoological Park * Balaji, Iran Balaji (, also Romanized as Bālājī) is a village in Rowze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald K
Ronald is a masculine given name derived from the Old Norse ''Rögnvaldr'', Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) p. 234; Hanks; Hodges (2003) § Ronald. or possibly from Old English '' Regenweald''. In some cases ''Ronald'' is an Anglicised form of the Gaelic '' Raghnall'', a name likewise derived from ''Rögnvaldr''. The latter name is composed of the Old Norse elements ''regin'' ("advice", "decision") and ''valdr'' ("ruler"). ''Ronald'' was originally used in England and Scotland, where Scandinavian influences were once substantial, although now the name is common throughout the English-speaking world. A short form of ''Ronald'' is ''Ron''. Pet forms of ''Ronald'' include ''Roni'' and '' Ronnie''. ''Ronalda'' and ''Rhonda'' are feminine forms of ''Ronald''. ''Rhona'', a modern name apparently only dating back to the late nineteenth century, may have originated as a feminine form of ''Ronald''. Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) pp. 230, 408; Hanks; Hodges (2003) § Rhona. The names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashwin Rai
Ashvin or Ashwin or Ashwan (; ; Malay/Indonesian: ''Aswin''; Thai: ''Asawin''), also known as Aswayuja, is the seventh month of the lunisolar Hindu calendar, the solar Tamil calendar, where it is known as Aippasi, and the solar Indian national calendar. It is the sixth month of the solar Bengali calendar and the seventh of the lunar Indian calendar of the Deccan Plateau. It falls in the season of ''Sharada'', or autumn. In Hindu astrology, Ashvin begins with the Sun's enter into Virgo. It overlaps with September and October of the Gregorian calendar and is the month in which Diwali, the festival of lights, is celebrated according to the amanta tradition (Diwali falls in Kartika according to the purnimanta tradition). In lunar religious calendars, Ashvin begins on the new moon or the full moon around the time of the September equinox. Etymology Ashvini is the first star that appears in the evening sky. In Indian astrology, it is the head of Aries, or the first of the 27 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
