Raiamas is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fishes. The majority of the species are from Africa, but R. bola and R. guttatus are from South and Southeast Asia.

Raiamas
Trout barb (Raiamas bola)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Danioninae
Genus: Raiamas
D. S. Jordan, 1919
Type species
Cyprinus bola
Species

17, see text.

Species

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Species Common Name Image
Raiamas ansorgii

(Boulenger, 1910)

 
Raiamas batesii

(Boulenger, 1914)

 
Raiamas bola

(F. Hamilton, 1822)

Trout barb  
Raiamas buchholzi

(W. K. H. Peters, 1876)

Raiamas christyi

(Boulenger, 1920)

Coppernose barb
Raiamas guttatus

(F. Day, 1870)

Burmese trout  
Raiamas intermedius

(Boulenger, 1915)

Raiamas kheeli

Stiassny, Schelly & Schliewen, 2006

Raiamas levequei

Howes & Teugels, 1989

Raiamas longirostris

(Boulenger, 1902)

Raiamas moorii

(Boulenger, 1900)

Lake Rukwa minnow
Raiamas nigeriensis

(Daget, 1959)

Raiamas salmolucius

(Nichols & Griscom, 1917)

Raiamas scarciensis

Howes & Teugels, 1989

 

Juvenile

Raiamas senegalensis

(Steindachner, 1870)

Silver fish  
Raiamas shariensis

(Fowler, 1949)

Raiamas steindachneri

(Pellegrin, 1908)

References

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  • Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Raiamas". FishBase. August 2011 version.