Razorbelly minnow

The razorbelly minnows are a group of fish in the genus Salmostoma found in southern Asia. They have been placed in the genus Salmophasia but this is regarded as a junior synonym of Salmostoma.[1]

Razorbelly minnow
Salmostoma bacaila
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Danioninae
Genus: Salmostoma
Swainson, 1839
Type species
Cyprinus oblongus
Swainson, 1839
Species

13 See text

Synonyms

Salmophasia

Species

There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus:[2]

  • Salmostoma acinaces (Valenciennes, 1844) (silver razorbelly minnow)
  • Salmostoma bacaila (F. Hamilton, 1822) (large razorbelly minnow)
  • Salmostoma balookee (Sykes, 1839) (Bloch razorbelly minnow)
  • Salmostoma belachi (Jayaraj, Krishna Rao, Ravichandra Reddy, Shakuntala & Devaraj, 1999)
  • Salmostoma boopis (F. Day, 1874) (Boopis razorbelly minnow)
  • Salmostoma horai (Silas, 1951) (Hora razorbelly minnow)
  • Salmostoma novacula (Valenciennes, 1840) (Novacula razorbelly minnow)
  • Salmostoma orissaensis (Bănărescu, 1968) (Orissa razorbelly minnow)
  • Salmostoma phulo (F. Hamilton, 1822) (finescale razorbelly minnow)
  • Salmostoma punjabense (F. Day, 1872) (Punjab razorbelly minnow)
  • Salmostoma sardinella (Valenciennes, 1844) (Sardinella razorbelly minnow)
  • Salmostoma sladoni (F. Day, 1870)
  • Salmostoma untrahi (F. Day, 1869) (Mahanadi razorbelly minnow)

References
  1. William Eschmeyer, ed. (2017). "Search Results from the Catalog of Fishes". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Salmostoma in FishBase. October 2017 version.


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