Bangana

Bangana
Bangana diplostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Genus:	Bangana Hamilton, 1822
Species
24

Bangana is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. It is distributed across much of southern and eastern Asia. Species live mainly in the flowing waters of tropical and subtropical rivers.^[1]

Bangana includes many species formerly classified in the genus Sinilabeo.^[1]

Species

There are about 24 species in this genus:^[2]

• Bangana almorae (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1912)
• Bangana ariza (Hamilton, 1807) – reba
• Bangana behri (Fowler, 1937)
• Bangana brevirostris Liu & Zhou, 2009
• Bangana decora (W. K. H. Peters, 1881)
• Bangana dero (Hamilton, 1822) – kalabans
• Bangana devdevi (Hora, 1936)
• Bangana diplostoma (Heckel, 1838)
• Bangana discognathoides (Nichols & C. H. Pope, 1927)
• Bangana elegans Kottelat, 1998
• Bangana gedrosicus (Zugmayer, 1912)
• Bangana horai (Bănărescu, 1986)
• Bangana lemassoni (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936)
• Bangana lippus (Fowler, 1936)
• Bangana musaei Kottelat & H. Steiner, 2011
• Bangana pierrei (Sauvage, 1880)
• Bangana rendahli (Sh. Kimura, 1934)
• Bangana sinkleri (Fowler, 1934)
• Bangana tonkinensis (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1934)
• Bangana tungting (Nichols, 1925)
• Bangana wui (C. Y. Zheng & Y. R. Chen, 1983)
• Bangana xanthogenys (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936)
• Bangana yunnanensis (Wu, et al., 1977)
• Bangana zhui (Zheng & Chen, 1989)

References

1. Liu, K. and W. Zhou. (2009). Bangana brevirostris, a new species of cyprinid fish (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from the Lancang-Jiang (Upper Mekong River) drainage in Yunnan, Southwest China. Zootaxa 1980, 61-68.
2. Froese, R. and D. Pauly. (Eds.) Bangana species list. FishBase. 2011.