Boraras

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Boraras
least rasbora, (Boraras urophthalmoides)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Danioninae
Genus:	Boraras Kottelat & Vidthayanon, 1993[1]
Species
6, see text.

Boraras is a small genus of Asian cyprinid fishes.

Species[]

• Boraras brigittae (, 1978) (Chili rasbora, Mosquito rasbora)
• Boraras maculatus (Duncker, 1904) (Dwarf rasbora)
• Boraras merah (Kottelat, 1991) (Phoenix rasbora)
• Boraras micros Kottelat & Vidthayanon, 1993
• Boraras naevus & Kottelat, 2011 (Strawberry rasbora)
• Boraras urophthalmoides (Kottelat, 1991) (Least rasbora, Exclamation point rasbora)

References[]

• Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Boraras in FishBase. August 2011 version.
• Conway, K.W.; Kottelat, M. 2011: Boraras naevus, a new species of miniature and sexually dichromatic freshwater fish from peninsular Thailand (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa, 3002: 45–51. Preview PDF

External links[]

• Valid species list of genus Boraras on FishBase.

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