Osteobrama is a genus of cyprinid fish found in southern Asia consisting of eight species. The name is derived from the Greek word osteon, meaning "bone", and the Old French word breme, a type of freshwater fish.
Species
These are the species in the genus:
- Osteobrama alfredianus <small>(Valenciennes, 1844)</small>
- Osteobrama bakeri <small>(Day, 1873)</small>
- Osteobrama belangeri <small>(Valenciennes, 1844)</small>
- Osteobrama cotio <small>(Hamilton, 1822)</small>
- Osteobrama cunma <small>(Day, 1888)</small>
- Osteobrama dayi <small>(Hora & Misra, 1940)</small>
- Osteobrama feae <small>Vinciguerra, 1890</small>
- Osteobrama neilli <small>(Day, 1873)</small>
- Osteobrama peninsularis <small>Silas, 1952</small>
- Osteobrama tikarpadaensis <small>Shangningam, Rath, Tudu & Kosygin, 2020</small>
- Osteobrama vigorsii <small>(Sykes, 1839)</small>
Fishbase formerly regarded O. bhimensis as a synonym of O. vigorsii, and also treats the former subspecies of O. cotio as distinct species: O. cunma and O. peninsularis, which is not supported by ITIS or WoRMS.
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