Pethia

Pethia is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae native to South Asia, East Asia (only Pethia stoliczkana recorded) and Mainland Southeast Asia.^[2] Some species are commonly seen in the aquarium trade. The name Pethia is derived from the Sinhalese "pethia", a generic word used to describe any of several small species of cyprinid fishes.^[1] Most members of this genus were included in Puntius, until it was revised in 2012.^[1]

Pethia
Black ruby barb, Pethia nigrofasciata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Barbinae
Genus:	Pethia Pethiyagoda, Meegaskumbura & Maduwage, 2012[1]
Type species
Barbus nigrofasciatus Günther, 1868

Species

There are currently 39 recognized species in this genus:

• Pethia atra (Linthoingambi & Vishwanath, 2007)
• Pethia aurea Knight, 2013^[3]
• Pethia bandula (Kottelat & Pethiyagoda, 1991) (Bandula barb)
• Pethia canius (F. Hamilton, 1822)^[3]
• Pethia conchonius (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Rosy barb)
• Pethia cumingii (Günther, 1868) (Cuming's barb)
• Pethia didi (S. O. Kullander & F. Fang, 2005)
• Pethia erythromycter (S. O. Kullander, 2008)
• Pethia expletiforis Mayanglambam & Vishwanath, 2013^[4]
• Pethia gelius (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Golden barb)^[3]
• Pethia guganio (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Glass barb)^[3]
• Pethia khugae (Linthoingambi & Vishwanath, 2007)
• Pethia longicauda U. Katwate, Paingankar, Raghavan & Dahanukar, 2014^[5]
• Pethia lutea U. Katwate, C. Katwate, Raghavan, Paingankar & Dahanukar, 2014 (Citron barb)^[6]
• Pethia macrogramma (S. O. Kullander, 2008)
• Pethia manipurensis (Menon, Rema Devi & Vishwanath, 2000)
• Pethia meingangbii (Arunkumar & Tombi Singh, 2003)
• Pethia melanomaculata (Deraniyagala, 1956)^[7]
• Pethia muvattupuzhaensis (Jameela Beevi & Ramachandran, 2005)
• Pethia nankyweensis (S. O. Kullander, 2008)
• Pethia narayani (Hora, 1937) (Narayan barb)
• Pethia nigripinna (Knight, Rema Devi, T. J. Indra & Arunachalam, 2012)^[8]
• Pethia nigrofasciata (Günther, 1868) (Black-ruby barb)
• Pethia ornatus (Vishwanath & Laisram, 2004)
• Pethia padamya (S. O. Kullander & Britz, 2008) (Odessa barb)
• Pethia phutunio (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Spotted-sail barb)
• Pethia poiensis Shangningam & Waikhom, 2018^[9]
• Pethia pookodensis (Mercy & Eapen, 2007)
• Pethia punctata (F. Day, 1865)^[10]
• Pethia reval (Meegaskumbura, N. K. A. Silva, Maduwage & Pethiyagoda, 2008)
• Pethia rutila Lalramliana, Knight & Laltlanhlua, 2014^[11]
• Pethia sanjaymoluri U. Katwate, Jadhav, Kumkar, Raghavan & Dahanukar, 2016 (Sanjay's black-tip pethia)^[12]
• Pethia setnai (Chhapgar & S. R. Sane, 1992)
• Pethia shalynius (G. M. Yazdani & S. K. Talukdar, 1975) (Shalyni barb)
• Pethia sharmai (Menon & Rema Devi, 1993)
• Pethia stoliczkana (F. Day, 1871)
• Pethia striata Atkore, Knight, Rema Devi & Krishnaswamy, 2015 (Kudremukh barb)^[13]
• Pethia thelys (S. O. Kullander, 2008)
• Pethia tiantian (S. O. Kullander & F. Fang, 2005)
• Pethia ticto (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Hamilton's ticto barb)^[14]
• Pethia yuensis (Arunkumar & Tombi Singh, 2003)

References

1. Pethiyagoda, R., Meegaskumbura, M. & Maduwage, K. (2012): A synopsis of the South Asian fishes referred to Puntius (Pisces: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 23 (1): 69-95.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Pethia". FishBase. June 2017 version.
3. Knight, J.D.M. (2013): Pethia aurea (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), a new species of barb from West Bengal, India, with redescription of P. gelius and P. canius. Zootaxa, 3700 (1): 173–184.
4. Mayanglambam, D. & Vishwanath, W. (2013): A new species of the genus Pethia from Mizoram, northeastern India (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa, 3736 (1): 82–88.
5. Katwate, U., Paingankar, M.S., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. (2014): Pethia longicauda, a new species of barb (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the northern Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa, 3846 (2): 235–248.
6. Katwate, U., Katwate, C., Raghavan, R., Paingankar, M.S. & Dahanukar, N. (2014): Pethia lutea, a new species of barb (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) and new records of P. punctata from northern Western Ghats of India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 6 (6): 5797-5818.
7. Batuwita, S., Maduwage, K. & Sudasinghe, H. (2015): Redescription of Pethia melanomaculata (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Sri Lanka. Zootaxa, 3936 (4): 575–583.
8. Knight, J.D.M., Rema Devi, K., Indra, T.J. & Arunachalam, M. (2012): A new species of barb Puntius nigripinnis (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 4 (3): 2409–2416.
9. Shangningam, Bungdon; Vishwanath, Waikhom (2018-02-15). "Pethia poiensis , a new species of cyprinid fish from the Chindwin Basin of Manipur, India". Zootaxa. 4379 (4): 585–593. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4379.4.10. ISSN 1175-5334.
10. Katwate, U., Baby, F., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. (2014): The identity of Pethia punctata, a senior synonym of P. muvattupuzhaensis(Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa, 3884 (3): 201-221.
11. Lalramliana, Knight, J.D.M. & Laltlanhlua, Z. (2014): Pethia rutila (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), a new species from Mizoram, Northeast India. Zootaxa, 3827 (3): 366–374.
12. Katwate, U., Jadhav, S., Kumkar, P., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. (2016): Pethia sanjaymoluri, a new species of barb (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the northern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Fish Biology, 88 (5): 2027–2050.
13. Atkore, V.M., Knight, J.D.M., Rema Devi, K. & Krishnaswamy, J. (2015): A New Species of Pethia from the Western Ghats, India (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Copeia, 103 (2): 290-296.
14. Katwate, U., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. (2015): The identity of Hamilton’s Ticto Barb, Pethia ticto (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa, 3964 (4): 401-418.