Roa (fish)

Roa
	Roa modesta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Chaetodontidae
Genus:	Roa; D. S. Jordan, 1923
Type species
	Loa excelsa; D. S. Jordan, 1921

Roa is a genus of butterflyfishes native to the Indian and Pacific oceans. The six species are widely distributed: R. australis near Australia, R. excelsa near Hawaii and nearby islands, R. jayakari near India, R. modesta near Japan and China, R. rumsfeldi in the Philippines,^[2] and R. haraguchiae near Japan and the Philippines.^[3]

Species[]

There are currently six recognized species in this genus:^[4]

Kuiter, 2004 (Triple-banded butterflyfish)
(D. S. Jordan, 1921) (Hawaiian gold-barred butterflyfish)
(Uejo, Senou & Motomura, 2020) (Haraguchi's butterflyfish)
(Norman, 1939) (Indian golden-barred butterflyfish)
(Temminck & Schlegel, 1844) (Japanese golden-barred butterflyfish)

Roa rumsfeldi (Rocha, Pinheiro, Wandell, Rocha & Shepherd, 2017) (Deep-blackfin butterflyfish)

References[]

^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Chaetodontidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
^ Rocha, Luiz A.; Pinheiro, Hudson T.; Wandell, Matt; Rocha, Claudia R.; Shepherd, Bart (October 18, 2017). "Roa rumsfeldi, a new butterflyfish (Teleostei, Chaetodontidae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines". ZooKeys (709): 127–134. doi:10.3897/zookeys.709.20404. PMC 5674171. PMID 29118639. Retrieved October 19, 2017.
^ Uejo, T., Senou, H. & Motomura, H. (2020). "Roa haraguchiae, a new species of butterflyfish (Teleostei: Perciformes: Chaetodontidae) from Japan and the Philippines". Ichthyological Research. 67 (3): 408–415. doi:10.1007/s10228-020-00735-9. S2CID 211088538. Retrieved June 4, 2020.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ N. Bailly (2014). Bailly N (ed.). "Roa Jordan, 1923". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved June 4, 2020.

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[CofF-1] Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Chaetodontidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[2] Rocha, Luiz A.; Pinheiro, Hudson T.; Wandell, Matt; Rocha, Claudia R.; Shepherd, Bart (October 18, 2017). "Roa rumsfeldi, a new butterflyfish (Teleostei, Chaetodontidae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines". ZooKeys (709): 127–134. doi:10.3897/zookeys.709.20404. PMC 5674171. PMID 29118639. Retrieved October 19, 2017.

[3] Uejo, T., Senou, H. & Motomura, H. (2020). "Roa haraguchiae, a new species of butterflyfish (Teleostei: Perciformes: Chaetodontidae) from Japan and the Philippines". Ichthyological Research. 67 (3): 408–415. doi:10.1007/s10228-020-00735-9. S2CID 211088538. Retrieved June 4, 2020.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[4] N. Bailly (2014). Bailly N (ed.). "Roa Jordan, 1923". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved June 4, 2020.

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Roa

Roa modesta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Chaetodontidae
Genus:	Roa D. S. Jordan, 1923
Type species
Loa excelsa D. S. Jordan, 1921^[1]