Species Puntius conchonius (Hamilton, 1822)

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Cyprinus conchonius Hamilton, F. 1822. An Account of the Fishes Found in the River Ganges and its Branches. Edinburgh : Archibald Constable 405 pp., pls 1-39. [389].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, ponds of northeast Bengal, Kosi and Ami rivers, India.

 

Introduction

McKay (1984) reported that there were self-maintaining populations of Puntius conchonius in Norman Creek, Brisbane, Queensland from 1970 until 1984, and Brumley (1996) reported that the Queensland population had died out. Corfield et al. (2008) however, reported that Puntius conchonius was known from streams in and south of Brisbane, Queensland and the Margaret River area, Western Australia. P. conchonius has also been found in Jingarmup Brook near Eagle Bay, Cape Naturaliste, Western Australia (Beatty et al. 2006).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced to fresh waters of Brisbane area, QLD (27º28´S), and Jingarmup Brook near Eagle Bay, Cape Naturaliste, WA (33º34'S) (may no longer be in the wild in QLD); tropical, widely circulated as an aquarium fish.

Introduced from India.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld, WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, omnivore.

 

General References

Allen, G.R. 1989. Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Neptune, New Jersey : T.F.H. Publications 240 pp., 63 pls. [213]

Allen, G.R., Cross, N.J. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Cyprinidae. pp. 345-347 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [347]

Allen, G.R., Midgley, S.H. & Allen, M. 2002. Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 394 pp. [361]

Beatty, S., Morgan, D, Jury, C. & Mitchell, J. 2006. Fish and freshwater crayfish in streams in the Cape Naturaliste region and Wilyabrup Brook. Murdoch University Report to the Cape to Capes Catchment Group and Geocatch. pp. 28 [9]

Brumley, A.R. 1991. Cyprinids in Australia. pp. 265-283 in Winfield, I.J. & Nelson, J.S. (eds). Cyprinid Fishes: Systematics, Biology and Exploitation. London : Chapman and Hall pp.

Brumley, A.R. 1996. Family Cyprinidae carps, minnows, etc. pp. 99-106 in McDowall, R.M. (ed.). Freshwater Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Sydney : Reed Books 247 pp.

Corfield, J., Diggles, B., Jubb, C., McDowall, R.M., Moore, A., Richards, A. & Rowe, D.K. 2008. Review of the impacts of introduced ornamental fish species that have established wild populations in Australia. Prepared for the Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. 277 pp. [108, 218]

Larson, H.K. & Martin, K.C. 1990. Freshwater Fishes of the Northern Territory. Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences Handbook Series Number 1. Darwin : Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 102 pp. 73 figs. [213]

McKay, R.J. 1984. Introductions of exotic fishes in Australia. pp. 177-199 in Courtnay, W.R. Jr & Staffer, J.R. Jr (eds). Distribution, Biology and Management of Exotic Fishes. Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press.

Morgan, D. & Beatty, S. 2008. Shame File: Alien Creature Feature (No. 3): Rosy Barb Puntius conchonius (Hamilton, 1822) (Pisces: Cyprinidae). Australian Society for Fish Biology Newsletter 38(1): 85-87

Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [216]

 

Common Name References

Allen, G.R. 1989. Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Neptune, New Jersey : T.F.H. Publications 240 pp., 63 pls. [213] (Rosy Barb)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Rosy Barb)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-May-2013		07-May-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)