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Teleostei (teleosts) > Cypriniformes (Carps) > Danionidae (Danios) > Danioninae
Etymology: Betadevario: Beta-, the second letter in Greek alphabet, also representing the numeral 2, and used in the meaning of second, and also the name of Beta Mahatvaraj who made great efforts to make the material available for this study; and -devario. With reference to its similarity to the genus Devario, in the meaning of second Devario.; ramachandrani: Named after Professor Alappat Ramachandran, School of Industrial Fisheries, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, in recognition of his contributions to fisheries and sea food production management and studies on indigenous ornamental fishes..
More on authors: Pramod, Fang, Rema, Devi, Liao, Indra & JameelaBeeviKullander.

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Freshwater; benthopelagic; depth range 0 - ? m (Ref. 84468). Tropical; 19°C - ?

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Asia: known only from the type locality area in the upper Sita River drainage in India.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 6.1 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 84468)

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Dorsal soft rays (total): 9 - 10; Anal soft rays: 14 - 15; Vertebrae: 35 - 36. For field identification purposes, it is easily distinguished from all species of Devario by its color pattern including a wide light horizontal band along the middle of the side bordering a wide dark lateral band along the abdominal side, and the long rostral and maxillary barbels (Ref. 84468).

Occurs in a small, high-altitude stream with a cascade and riffle-pool habitat and with width of 2.27 m and at depth at most about 30 cm (Ref. 84468).

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Pramod, P.K., F. Fang, K. Rema Devi, Liao-T.-Y., T.J. Indra, K.S. Jameela Beevi and S.O. Kullander, 2010. Betadevario ramachandrani, a new danionine genus and species from the Western Ghats of India (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Danioninae). Zootaxa 2519:31-47. (Ref. 84468)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Data deficient (DD) ; Date assessed: 05 September 2010

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Not Evaluated

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Not Evaluated

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Harmless

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 1.0000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01000 (0.00244 - 0.04107), b=3.04 (2.81 - 3.27), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.1 ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

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Betadevario ramachandrani Pramod, Fang, Rema Devi, Liao, Indra, Jameela Beevi & Kullander, 2010