''Rasboroides pallidus'' is a species of freshwater
cyprinid
Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family and the largest verte ...
fish
endemic
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to southwestern
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
.
It is only known from shallow, slow-flowing streams in the basins of the Kalu River
Kalu Ganga ( si, කළු ගඟ; literally: Black River) is a river in Sri Lanka. Measuring in length, the river originates from Sri Padhaya and reach the sea at Kalutara. The Black River flows through the Ratnapura and the Kalutara District a ...
, Bentara River, Gin River
The Gin Ganga ( si, ගිං ගඟ, ''Gin River''), is a long river situated in Galle District of Sri Lanka.
The river's headwaters are located in the Gongala Mountain range, near Deniyaya, bordering the Sinharaja Forest Reserve. The riv ...
, Polathu-Modera River and Nilwala River __NOTOC__
Nilwala is a river in Southern Province in Sri Lanka. It originates from Sinharaja Forest Reserve
Sinharaja Forest Reserve is a forest reserve and a biodiversity hotspot in Sri Lanka. It is of international significance and has been ...
.[ It has been introduced to the ]Mahaweli
The Mahaweli River ( si, මහවැලි ගඟ, literally "Great Sandy River"; ta, மகாவலி ஆறு 'mahawali gangai'', is a long river, ranking as the longest river in Sri Lanka. It has a drainage basin of , the largest in the ...
and Walawe River basins, and is overall less threatened
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than the related '' R. vaterifloris''.
A comprehensive taxonomic
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review in 2018 based on morphometry
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, meristics Meristics is an area of ichthyology and herpetology which relates to counting quantitative features of fish and reptiles, such as the number of fins or scales. A meristic (countable trait) can be used to describe a particular species of fish, or us ...
and mtDNA
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disputed the validity of '' R. rohani'', showing that it is a junior synonym
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of ''R. pallidus'';[ this synonymy is followed by the Catalog of Fishes but not the FishBase.]
It can grow to standard length
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Overall length
* Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish m ...
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References
Rasboroides
Freshwater fish of Sri Lanka
Endemic fauna of Sri Lanka
Taxa named by Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala
Fish described in 1930
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