Badis soraya
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Nandoidei |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Badidae
Genus: Badis
Species: Badis soraya
Name
[edit]Badis soraya Valdesalici & van der Voort, 2015
- Holotype: MSNG 57574.
- Paratypes: MSNG 57575 (5), 57576 (1).
Type locality: India: Jalpaiguri district: 12 km west of Dam Dim: Tista River drainage, Lish River, 26°51'55.530"N 88°34'3.374"E.
Etymology: The species term soraya, a noun, is ancient Persian for The Pleiades, which is an open cluster of bright blue stars and part of the constellation Taurus. The name is given to the species in reference to the cleithral blotch, part of the postorbital stripe and dorsal fin sheath scale blotches frequently being bright blue.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Valdesalici, S. & van der Voort, S. 2015. Four new species of the Indo-Burmese genus Badis from West Bengal, India (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Badidae). Zootaxa 3985(3): 391–408. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3985.3.4 Preview (PDF). Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Badis soraya in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on May 14, 2021.
- Badis soraya in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024, accessed on May 14, 2021. - Badis soraya in the World Register of Marine Species, accessed on May 14, 2021