Bangana dero
Description
Bangana dero (Hamilton, 1822)
[I]—Kalabans
Taxonomy. Original description: Cyprinus dero Hamilton, 1822: 277, 385, pl. 22 (fig. 78) [Brahmaputra River, at Gualpara (Goalpara), Assam, India; no types known].— Afghanistan synonyms: Sinilabeo dero (Hamilton 1822); Labeo dero (Hamilton, 1822); Cyprinus (Bengana) falcata Gray, 1832; Labeo henshawi Fowler, 1924; Gobio malacostomus McClelland, 1839; Labeo rilli Chaudhuri, 1912; Chondrostoma semivelatus Valenciennes, 1844; Cirrhina sindensis Day, 1872.—Revisions: Zhang & Chen (2006: 50).—Illustration: Hamilton (1822: pl. 22, fig. 78) as Cyprinus dero.
Status in Afghanistan. First record from Afghanistan by Moravec and Amin (1978); confirmed by Coad (1981: 11; 2014: 125; 2015: 227).—Afghanistan materials: None.
Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Kabul River.—General distribution: Upper Brahmaputra basin: Pakistan to China; introduced elsewhere.—Habitat: This species is found to inhabit torrential hillstreams in shallow waters. Adults migrate to warmer regions near lakes and streams during the winter. Freshwater.
Economic importance. Commercially important.
Reasons of introduction. Fisheries: enhancement of wild stocks and sports fishing.
Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hamilton
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Bangana
- Species
- dero
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bangana dero (Hamilton, 1822) sec. Çiçek, Fricke, Eagderi, Sungur, Coad & Hamdard, 2023
References
- Hamilton, F. (1822) An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. Printed for A. Constable and company, Edinburgh and London, vii + 405 pp., pls. 1 - 39. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 59540
- McClelland, J. (1839) Indian Cyprinidae. Asiatic Researches, 19 (2), 217 - 471, pls. 37 - 61.
- Day, F. (1872) Monograph of Indian Cyprinidae. Parts 4 - 6. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 41 (1 - 4), 1 - 29 + 171 - 198 + 318 - 327, pl. 1.
- Zhang, E. & Chen, Y. - Y. (2006) Revised diagnosis of the genus Bangana Hamilton, 1822 (Pisces: Cyprinidae), with taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the Chinese species. Zootaxa, 1281 (1), 41 - 54. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1281.1.3
- Moravec, F. & Amin, A. (1978) Some helminth parasites excluding Monogenea from fishes of Afghanistan. Acta Sci Nat Brun, 12, 1 - 45.
- Coad, B. W. (1981) Fishes of Afghanistan, an annoted checklist. National Museum of Canada Publications in Zoology, 14, i - v + 1 - 26.
- Coad, B. W. (2014) Fishes of Afghanistan. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow. 393 pp.