Badidae

Badidae
Badis badis
Dario dario (male)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Clade:	Percomorpha
Family:	Badidae Barlow, Liem & Wickler, 1968
Genera[1]
Badis Bleeker, 1853 Dario Kullander & Britz, 2002

The Badidae or the chameleonfishes are a small family (containing about 30 species) or ray-finned fishes which has been placed in the order Anabantiformes. Despite their apparent affinity to other Anabantiforms, 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; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Badidae". 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; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Badis". FishBase. February 2019 version.
4. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Dario". 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.