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Common Name: Malabar danio
Synonyms and Other Names: giant danio
Taxonomy: available through 
Identification: Recent systematic review and distinguishing characteristics were provided by Jayaram (1991). A key, distinguishing characteristics, and figure were given in Talwar and Jhingran (1992). Color photographs of live fish appeared in Axelrod et al. (1985).
Size: 12 cm.
Native Range: Tropical Asia, southern India including Sri Lanka (Jayaram 1991).
Nonindigenous Occurrences: This species was collected near a fish farm in a canal in Ruskin, Hillsborough County, Florida, in or before 1979 (Courtenay and Hensley 1979a). Two specimens were taken in the same county from a ditch adjacent to the Tampa Bypass Canal in November 1993 (museum specimen). It was also discovered in a small roadside borrow pit south of Miami (Shafland 1976). A single specimen was captured in Rogers Spring, Clark County, Nevada, on 15 November 1983 (Courtenay, personal communication); that record is apparently the basis for other reports from this site and state (e.g., Courtenay et al. 1984, 1991).
Means of Introduction: The Hillsborough County, Florida, introductions were probably due to releases or escapes from local fish farms. The Nevada introduction likely represents the result of an aquarium release.
Status: Reported from Florida and Nevada.
Impact of Introduction: Unknown.
Remarks: The Malabar danio has long been popular in the aquarium trade and is widely available.
Voucher specimens: Florida (UF 98915); the Nevada specimen was reported as deposited at FAU (Courtenay, personal communication 1983), but that fish is now unavailable, possibly destroyed.
Other Resources:
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Leo Nico
Revision Date: 12/6/1999 Citation for this information:
Leo Nico. 2009. Danio malabaricus. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=527> Revision Date: 12/6/1999
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