Roa (fish)

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]

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

Species

There are currently eight recognized species in this genus:^[4][5]

• Roa australis Kuiter, 2004 (Triple-banded butterflyfish)
• Roa excelsa (D. S. Jordan, 1921) (Hawaiian gold-barred butterflyfish)
• Roa haraguchiae (Uejo, Senou & Motomura, 2020) (Haraguchi's butterflyfish)
• Roa jayakari (Norman, 1939) (Indian golden-barred butterflyfish)
• Roa modesta (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844) (Japanese golden-barred butterflyfish)
• Roa rumsfeldi (Rocha, Pinheiro, Wandell, Rocha & Shepherd, 2017) (Deep-blackfin butterflyfish)
• Roa semilunaris (Matsunuma & Motomura 2022) (Semilunar-spot butterflyfish)
• Roa uejoi (Matsunuma & Motomura 2022) (Uejo's butterflyfish)

References

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. Bibcode:2017ZooK..709..127R. 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. Bibcode:2020IchtR..67..408U. doi:10.1007/s10228-020-00735-9. S2CID 211088538. Retrieved June 4, 2020.{{cite journal}}: 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.
5. Matsunuma, Mizuki; Motomura, Hiroyuki (March 2022). "Two new species of the butterflyfish genus Roa (Perciformes: Chaetodontidae)". Journal of Fish Biology. 100 (3): 758–774. Bibcode:2022JFBio.100..758M. doi:10.1111/jfb.14993. ISSN 1095-8649. PMID 35038164. S2CID 246019195.