Description

Dorsal spines (total): 14 - 15; Dorsal soft rays (total): 5 - 7; Anal soft rays: 5 - 8; Vertebrae: 24 - 26. Body color usually uniform or with weak reticulate pattern formed by dark scale margins, very rarely any vertical bars. No caudal, cleithral or opercular blotches. Lateral line scales usually 23, rarely 22 or 24; transverse scale row 8.5; vertebrae usually 25. Palatine teeth absent. Anguloarticular lateralis canal present. Males with black blotch anteriorly in dorsal fin (Ref. 46238).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Anabantiformes

Family: Badidae

Genus: Dario

Species: Dario hysginon Kullander & Britz, 2002

Climate Zone

Biology

Life cycle and mating behavior

Habitat

benthopelagic

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Threat to Humans

Harmless