Dawkinsia filamentosa | 水產百科網

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Species of fish

Dawkinsia filamentosa,[3] filament barb is a species of barb. Young fish have barely any color and black spots. They start having more color at three months old. The fish is a swift swimmer.[4] Males are larger than females and they fertilize eggs by swimming into the cloud of eggs.[5] The species is most commonly found in coastal floodplains near the Southwest Indian states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. This species is also known as blackspot barb.[6]

Its generic name, Dawkinsia, is named after renowned British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, for "his contribution to the public understanding of science and, in particular, of evolutionary science".[7]

Adults differ from all other South Asian Puntius by a combination ...