''Rasbora armitagei'', also known as Armitagei's rasbora or Armitagei’s striped rasbora, is a
minnow
Minnow is the common name for a number of species of small freshwater fish, belonging to several genera of the families Cyprinidae and Leuciscidae. They are also known in Ireland as pinkeens.
Smaller fish in the subfamily Leusciscidae are ...
endemic to
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
.
[ The fish was discovered from a small tributary of ]Kalu Ganga
Kalu Ganga ( si, කළු ගඟ; literally: Black River) is a river in Sri Lanka. Measuring in length, the river originates from Sri Padhaya and reach the sea at Kalutara. The Black River flows through the Ratnapura and the Kalutara Distric ...
at Rakwana, South-Western Wet zone, Sri Lanka.[
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Description
''Rasbora armitagei'' can grow to standard length
Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology.
Overall length
* Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish ...
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Habitat
''Rasbora armitagei'' is known from shady, slow-flowing clear water streams with gravel and boulder substrata.[
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See also
*''Rasbora naggsi
''Rasbora naggsi'' is a minnow endemic to southern Sri Lanka. The fish was discovered from a stream running across the Sabaragamuwa Campus in Belihul-Oya, Sri Lanka.
Etymology
This species is named after the famous malacologist Fred Naggs.
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Notes
References
Rasboras
Freshwater fish of Sri Lanka
Endemic fauna of Sri Lanka
Taxa named by Anjana Silva
Taxa named by Kalana Maduwage
Taxa named by Rohan Pethiyagoda
Fish described in 2010
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