Английская Википедия:Dawkinsia

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Dawkinsia is a genus of cyprinid fishes from freshwater in South India and Sri Lanka. It was split off (i.e., reclassified) from genus Puntius in 2012.[1]

Etymology

Dawkinsia is named after the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in recognition of his "contribution to the public understanding of science, particularly, of evolutionary science".[2][1]Шаблон:Rp Dawkins describes this as "a great honour".[3]

Description

Adults typically measure Шаблон:Cvt SL. They do not have rostral barbels but might have maxillary barbels. Juveniles have a colour pattern consisting of three black bars on body; this persists to adult stage in some species. Adults have a black, horizontally elongate blotch on the caudal peduncle.[1]Шаблон:Rp

Species

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Dawkinsia apsara

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

References

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  1. 1,0 1,1 1,2 Шаблон:Cite journal
  2. Шаблон:Cite web
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  4. Шаблон:FishBase genus
  5. Unmesh Katwate, Deepak Apte, Rajeev Raghavan, Dawkinsia uttara, a new species of filament barb (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Western Ghats of India, Vertibrate Zoology, 70(4): 717– 730, 2020