The Species Black List
Pethia padamya
ruby barb
The ruby barb (Pethia padamya) is a popular aquarium fish that, in the wild state, is known only from the lower Irrawaddy drainage along with an artificial pond above the Anisakan Falls in central Myanmar.
- Status
- Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List
- Restriction tier
- 3, a single drainage, massif or small island
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Realm
- Indo-Malaysian
- Locality
- Anisakan Falls
- As IUCN records it
- Pethia padamya (Kullander & Britz, 2008)