Ricefish Species - a listing of Oryzias species

Following is a list of Oryzias species known to date.

• Oryzias carnaticus (Jerdon, 1849)  (carnaticus ricefish)
  
• Oryzias celebensis (Weber, 1894) (Celebes ricefish, Celebes medaka)
  
• Oryzias  celebesensis (Weber, 1894) (Celebes ricefish, Celebes medaka)
  
• Oryzias curvinotus (Nichols & Pope, 1927)   (Hynann ricefish)
  
• Oryzias haugiangensis (Roberts, 1998)  ()
     
• Oryzias javanicus (Bleeker, 1854) (Java ricefish, Javanese ricefish)
  
• Oryzias latipes (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Japanese medaka, Japanese ricefish, medakafish, medaka ricefish)
  
• Oryzias latipes latipes (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Japanese medaka, Japanese ricefish, medakafish, medaka ricefish)
  
• Oryzias latipes sinensis (Chen, Uwa & Chu, 1989) (China medaka, Chinese ricefish)
  
• Oryzias luzonensis (Luzon ricefish)
  
• Oryzias marmoratus (Marmoratus ricefish, marmorated medaka)
• Oryzias matanensis (Matano medaka, Matanensis ricefish)
  
• Oryzias mekongensis (Mekong ricefish)
  
• Oryzias melastigma (Indian ricefish, Indian medaka)
  
• Oryzias minutillus (Thai ricefish, dwarf medaka)
  
• Oryzias nigrimas (Nigrimas ricefish, black buntingi)
  
• Oryzias profundicola (Profundicola ricefish)
  
• Oryzias sinensis (Chinese medaka)
  
• Oryzias timorensis (Timor ricefish)
  

• Oryzias dancena (Hamilton, 1822) ( also known as O. melastigma)
  

• Oryzias haugiangensis
  
• Oryzias hubbsi (Roberts, 1998)  
  
• Oryzias pectoralis
  
• Oryzias uwai
  

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF RICEFISH SPECIES

Other information of interest may be found in;

Roberts TR

Systematic observations on tropical Asian medakas or ricefishes of the genus Oryzias with descriptions of four new species.
Icthyological Res. 45 :213-224 (1998).

STOCKS OF ORYZIAS SPECIES IN JAPAN.

Iwamatsu, T. et al.. (1993), The Fish Journal MEDAKA, 5: 5-10.

MEDAKA-GAKU (in jpn).

Iwamatsu, T. (1993)