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Scientific Name: Botia dario (Hamilton, 1822)
English Name: Bengal loach
Local/Bangla Name: Rani mach (রাণী মাছ), Bou mach (বউ মাছ), Dari mach (দাড়ি মাছ)
Bonyfish : Botia dario

Photo: ABR Lab

Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Teleostei
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cobitidae
Description:
Body is laterally compressed. Body encircled by 7 oblique brown or black bands. Separated by yellowish ones of equal or shorter width. Cadual fin is forked. 2-4 broken black bands occur on the caudal portion.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Abundant in clear hill streams of Mymensingh, Sylhet, Dinajpur, Rangpur and Chittagong Hill tracts.
Environment:
Freshwater (Demersal)
Main References:

Rahman AKA (2005) Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh. 2nd ed. Zool. Soc. Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. xviii + 394 pp.

Other References:

Hossain M, Wahab M, Belton B (2012) The Checklist of the Riverine Fishes of Bangladesh. FAN Bangladesh. 1. 29-39.

Siddiqui KU, Islam MA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hasan MA, Khondker M and Rahman MM (eds.) (2007) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh. Vol. 23. Freshwater Fishes. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 300+xxxi. pp.

IUCN Bangladesh (2015) Red List of Bangladesh Volume 5: Freshwater Fishes. IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Bangladesh Country Office, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp xvi+360

DoF Bangladesh (2023) Album: Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh, Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, Bangladesh, Dhaka. 200 pp.

Ahmed A, Rahman MM, Mandal S (2015) Biodiversity of Hillstream fishes in Bangladesh. Zootaxa. 3700. 283-92. 10.11646/zootaxa.3700.2.6.

Ahmed MS, Datta SK, Zhilik AA (2020) Molecular diversity of freshwater fishes of Bangladesh assessed by DNA barcoding. Bangladesh Journal of Zoology, 48(1), 1-19.

Giri SS ed, 2017 Monographs on Threatened Freshwater Fishes of South Asia. SAARC Agriculture Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 305 p.

Froese R, Pauly D (Editors) (2024) FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version (02/2024).

DNA Barcodes from Bangladesh
GenBank Accession Number:
COI: MH087038 MH087045   MN171346 MN171347 KY124374
Other DNA Barcodes & Nucleutide Sequences
Global IUCN conservation status:
BD IUCN conservation status:
Other Information