Attentive carplet

The attentive carplet or silver carplet (Amblypharyngodon melettinus) is a species of carplet in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in freshwater streams, ponds and rivers of India and Sri Lanka.[2]

Attentive carplet
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Danioninae
Genus: Amblypharyngodon
Species:
A. melettinus
Binomial name
Amblypharyngodon melettinus
(Valenciennes, 1844)
Synonyms

Leuciscus melettina Valenciennes, 1844
Amblypharyngodon chakaiensis Babu Rao & Nair, 1978
Amblypharyngodon grandisquamis Jordan & Starks, 1917
Brachygramma jerdonii Day, 1865
Rhodeus indicus Jerdon, 1849

Etymology

The generic name comes from Greek, "amblys" means "darkness" and Greek name "pharyngx" for "pharynx" with "odous" means "teeth".[2]

References
  1. Vidthayanon, C. (2012). "Amblypharyngodon melettinus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Amblypharyngodon melettinus" in FishBase. November 2014 version.


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