Bigspot barb
Barbodes dunckeri,[1] the bigspot barb, is a species of cyprinid fish native to Malaysia where it inhabits acidic swamps. This species can also be found in the aquarium trade.[2] It was first discovered by Ernst Ahl in 1929.[3]
| Bigspot barb | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Genus: | Barbodes |
| Species: | B. dunckeri |
| Binomial name | |
| Barbodes dunckeri (C. G. E. Ahl, 1929) | |
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Etymology
The specific epithet honors Georg Duncker, a German ichthyologist.
References
- Kottelat, M. (2013): The Fishes of the Inland Waters of Southeast Asia: A Catalogue and Core Bibliography of the Fishes Known to Occur in Freshwaters, Mangroves and Estuaries. Archived December 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2013, Supplement No. 27: 1–663.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Puntius dunckeri" in FishBase. October 2013 version.
- "Taxonomy browser (Barbodes dunckeri)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
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