Badidae
Badis badis
Dario dario (male)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Percomorpha
Family: Badidae
Barlow, Liem & Wickler, 1968
Genera[1]

The Badidae (the chameleonfishes) are a small family (about 30 species) which has been placed in the order Anabantiformes. However, the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the family as being a sister to the Anabantiformes, along with the Nandidae and Pristolepididae in an unnamed and unranked but monophyletic clade which is a sister to the Ovalentaria within the wider Percomorpha.[2] Members of this family are small freshwater fish that are found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Thailand.[3][4][5] The largest is Badis assamensis that reaches a standard length of up to 7.5 cm (3 in),[6] while the smallest, Dario dario, does not exceed 2 cm (0.8 in).[7]

References

  1. ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Badidae" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
  2. ↑ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 394. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2022-06-01. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
  3. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Badis in FishBase. February 2019 version.
  4. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Dario in FishBase. February 2019 version.
  5. ↑ Dahanukar, N.; Kumkar, P.; Katwate, U.; Raghavan, R. (2015). "Badis britzi, a new percomorph fish (Teleostei: Badidae) from the Western Ghats of India". Zootaxa. 3941 (3): 429–436. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3941.3.9. PMID 25947522. S2CID 7291721.
  6. ↑ "Badis assamensis". SeriouslyFish. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  7. ↑ "Dario dario". SeriouslyFish. Retrieved 16 February 2019.


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