Rita Temporal range: Lower Pliocene to Recent
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Rita rita | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Siluriformes |
Family: | Bagridae |
Genus: | Rita Bleeker, 1853 |
Type species | |
Pimelodus rita Hamilton, 1822
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Rita is a genus of fish in the family Bagridae found in South Asia. These species have a single pair of mandibular barbels, an elongated Weberian apparatus firmly sutured to the basioccipital and the sensory canal on the posttemporal enclosed with bone.[1]