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Raiamas Levequei
''Raiamas'' is a genus of freshwater Actinopterygii, ray-finned fishes belonging to the Family (biology), family Danionidae, the danios or danionins. The majority of the species are from Africa, but ''R. bola'' and ''R. guttatus '' are from South Asia, South and Southeast Asia. Species ''Raiamas'' contains the following species: * ''Raiamas ansorgii'' (George Albert Boulenger, Boulenger, 1910) * ''Raiamas batesii'' (Boulenger, 1914) * ''Raiamas bola'' (Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, Hamilton, 1822) (Trout barb) * ''Raiamas brachyrhabdotos'' Bauchet Katemo Manda, Manda, Jos Snoeks, Snoeks, Auguste Chocha Manda, Manda & Emmanuel Vreven, Vreven, 2018 * ''Raiamas buchholzi'' (Wilhelm Peters, Peters, 1876) * ''Raiamas christyi'' (Boulenger, 1920) (Coppernose barb) * ''Raiamas guttatus'' (Francis Day, Day, 1870) (Burmese trout) * ''Raiamas intermedius'' (Boulenger, 1915) * ''Raiamas kheeli'' Melanie Stiassny, Stiassny, Robert C. Schelly, Schelly & Ulrich K. Schliewen, Schliewen, 2006 * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trout Barb
The trout barb, or Indian trout (''Raiamas bola'') is a carp of the family Cyprinidae, which occurs in freshwaters around the Bay of Bengal. Description The trout barb has an elongated, slender body which is laterally compressed with a sharp snout. The juvenile fish possess a pair of rudimentary maxillary barbels but these are absent in the adults. It has very small scales and has 85-95 scales along its lateral line. It has a forked tail. The dorsal part of the body is greenish black, separated from the silvery flanks by a golden stripe running along the length of the body. The fins are yellowish in colour and there are a number of greenish blue spots on the body. The maximum length is 35 cm and they grow up to 2.3 kg in weight. Distribution The trout barb is found in the Indian states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal and Odisha, Orissa. It also occurs in Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar. Trout barbs were introduc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jos Snoeks
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Raiamas Levequei
''Raiamas'' is a genus of freshwater Actinopterygii, ray-finned fishes belonging to the Family (biology), family Danionidae, the danios or danionins. The majority of the species are from Africa, but ''R. bola'' and ''R. guttatus '' are from South Asia, South and Southeast Asia. Species ''Raiamas'' contains the following species: * ''Raiamas ansorgii'' (George Albert Boulenger, Boulenger, 1910) * ''Raiamas batesii'' (Boulenger, 1914) * ''Raiamas bola'' (Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, Hamilton, 1822) (Trout barb) * ''Raiamas brachyrhabdotos'' Bauchet Katemo Manda, Manda, Jos Snoeks, Snoeks, Auguste Chocha Manda, Manda & Emmanuel Vreven, Vreven, 2018 * ''Raiamas buchholzi'' (Wilhelm Peters, Peters, 1876) * ''Raiamas christyi'' (Boulenger, 1920) (Coppernose barb) * ''Raiamas guttatus'' (Francis Day, Day, 1870) (Burmese trout) * ''Raiamas intermedius'' (Boulenger, 1915) * ''Raiamas kheeli'' Melanie Stiassny, Stiassny, Robert C. Schelly, Schelly & Ulrich K. Schliewen, Schliewen, 2006 * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich K
Ulrich () is a Germanic given name derived from Old High German ''Uodalrich'', ''Odalric''. It is composed of the elements '' uodal-'' meaning "heritage" and ''-rih'' meaning "king, ruler". Attested from the 8th century as the name of Alamannic nobility, the name is popularly given from the high medieval period in reference to Saint Ulrich of Augsburg (canonized 993). Ulrich is also a surname. It is most prevalent in Germany and has the highest density in Switzerland. This last name was found in the United States in the year 1727 when Christof Ulrich landed in Pennsylvania. Most Americans with the last name were concentrated in Pennsylvania, which was home to many German immigrant communities. Nowadays in the United States, the name is distributed largely in the Pennsylvania-Ohio region. History Documents record the Old High German name ''Oadalrich'' or ''Uodalrich'' from the later 8th century in Alamannia. The related name '' Adalric'' (Anglo-Saxon cognate '' Æthelric'') is atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert C
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Stiassny
Melanie Lisa Jane Stiassny (born 17 January 1953 in Bielefeld, Germany) is the Axelrod Research Curator of Ichthyology at the American Museum of Natural History. Her research interests focus on freshwater biodiversity documentation and systematic ichthyology in the Old World tropics, including tropical Africa (especially in the Congo River) and Madagascar. She has published broadly on the biogeography conservation and systematics of teleosts. Education Stiassny holds both a BS and a Ph.D. from King's College London, and has previously taught at Harvard University and Columbia University and is now a professor in the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History. She is a member of the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund, the Advisory Council of Conservation International’s Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, the Advisory Board of National Geographic Society’s Conservation Trust, and the Deutsche Cichliden Gesellschaft (DCG, German Cich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raiamas Kheeli
''Raiamas kheeli'' is a species of cyprinid fish in the genus ''Raiamas'' from the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t .... Etymology The fish is named in honor of American attorney and labor mediator Theodore W. Kheel (1914–2010), because of his “enduring support for nature conservation and sustainable development around the globe”. In 1991, Kheel founded the Nurture Nature Foundation to help resolve the conflict between environmental protection groups and economic development. References kheeli Fish described in 2006 Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo {{Danioninae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raiamas Intermedius
''Raiamas intermedius'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Raiamas'' which is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia. References * intermedius The vastus intermedius () (Cruraeus) arises from the front and lateral surfaces of the body of the femur in its upper two-thirds, sitting under the rectus femoris muscle and from the lower part of the lateral intermuscular septum. Its fibers end ... Fish described in 1915 Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{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] |
Raiamas Guttatus
The Burmese trout (''Raiamas guttatus'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Raiamas''. They are found in the Irrawaddy, Mekong, Chao Phraya, Salween River basins and also in the northern Malay Peninsula The Malay Peninsula is located in Mainland Southeast Asia. The landmass runs approximately north–south, and at its terminus, it is the southernmost point of the Asian continental mainland. The area contains Peninsular Malaysia, Southern Tha .... References Burmese trout Freshwater fish of Southeast Asia Fish of Myanmar Burmese trout {{Danioninae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raiamas Christyi
The coppernose barb (''Raiamas christyi'') is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Danionidae. This fish is found in the Congo River system in Africa.Lévêque, C. and J. Daget, 1984. Cyprinidae. p. 217-342. In J. Daget, J.-P. Gosse and D.F.E. Thys van den Audenaerde (eds.) Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa (CLOFFA). ORSTOM, Paris and MRAC, Tervuren. Vol. 1 Etymology The fish is named in honor of Cuthbert Christy Cuthbert Christy (1863 – 29 May 1932) was an English medical doctor and zoologist who undertook extensive explorations of Central Africa during the first part of the 20th century. He was known for his work on sleeping sickness, and for the Chr ... (1863– 1932), an English physician who specialized in learning about sleeping sickness, he was also a zoologist, an explorer, and the Director of the Congo Museum (Tervuren, Belgium), who was the one who collected the holotype specimen. References Raiamas Cyprinid fish of Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 – 20 April 1883) was a German natural history, naturalist and explorer. He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Berlin Zoological Museum. Encouraged by Müller and the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Peters travelled to Mozambique via Angola in September 1842, exploring the coastal region and the Zambesi River. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens, which he then described in ''Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique... in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt'' (1852–1882). The work was comprehensive in its coverage, dealing with mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, river fish, insects and botany. He replaced Martin Lichtenstein as curator of the museum in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In a few years, he greatly increased ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
