Chinese rice fish

Chinese rice fish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Beloniformes
Family: Adrianichthyidae
Subfamily: Oryziinae
Genus: Oryzias
Species: O. sinensis
Binomial name
Oryzias sinensis
Chen, Uwa & Chu, 1989
Synonyms
  • Oryzias latipes sinensis Chen, Uwa & Chu, 1989

The Chinese rice fish (Oryzias sinensis) is a species of fish in the genus Oryzias. This freshwater fish occurs in swamps, stagnant parts of streams, rice fields and marshes, and is up to 3.1 cm (1.2 in) long.[2] It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Japanese rice fish (Oryzias latipes).[1]

The natural range of the Chinese rice fish is in East and Southeast Asia in the Mekong, Irrawaddy, Salween, Red River and Nanpangjiang basins.[3] It has been introduced to Kazakhstan and Russia (in the lower Kuban drainage); also spreading in the Azov basin and has been discovered in the Obytichna River in Ukraine.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Parenti, L. (2012). "Oryzias sinensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 3.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Oryzias sinensis" in FishBase. January 2013 version.
  3. Kottelat, M., 2001. Fishes of Laos. WHT Publications Ltd., Colombo 5, Sri Lanka. 198 p.
  4. Kottelat, M. and J. Freyhof, 2007. Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland. 646 p.


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