Rhodeus smithii

Taxobox
name = "Rhodeus smithii"
status = CR
status_ref = IUCN2006 |assessors= World Conservation Monitoring Centre|year=1996 |id= 40704|title= Rhodeus ocellatus ssp. smithii |downloaded= 2007-05-28]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Cypriniformes
familia = Cyprinidae
genus = "Rhodeus"
species = "R. smithii"
binomial = "Rhodeus smithii"
binomial_authority = (Regan, 1908)

"Rhodeus smithii" is a temperate freshwater fish belonging to the Acheilognathinae sub-family of the Cyprinidae family. It originates in stagnant waters in inland rivers in Japan. It was originally described as "Achilognathus smithii" by Charles Tate Regan in 1908, and is also referred to as "Rhodeus ocellatus smithii" in scientific literature.FishBase species | genus = Rhodeus | species = smithii | year = 2007| month = February ] It is listed as critically endangered in the IUCN Red List.

The fish reaches a size of up to 6.5 centimetres (2.6 in), and is native to freshwater habitats with a pH of 6.8 to 7.8, a hardness of 20 DH, and a temperature of 10° to 25° C (50° to 77° F).

When spawning, the females deposit their eggs inside bivalves, where they hatch and the young remain until they can swim.

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