Rasbora api

{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | image = Rasbora api.jpg | status = | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = | taxon = Rasbora api | authority = Lumbantobing, 2010<ref name=FishBase>{{FishBase|Rasbora|api|month=April|year=2013}}</ref> }}

'''''Rasbora api''''' is a species of cyprinid fish in the genus ''Rasbora''. It inhabits the Kluet, Alas, Aek Batugarigis, Aek Sibundung, Batang Lumut, and Batang Toru rivers in Sumatra.<ref name=FishBase/>

Discovered by Daniel Natanael Lumbantobing, an Indonesian doctoral student in the Department of Biological Sciences of The George Washington University, United States.<ref name=":0">Lumbantobing, Daniel. (2010). Four New Species of the Rasbora trifasciata-Group (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Northwestern Sumatra, Indonesia. Copeia. 2010. 644-670. 10.2307/40962962. </ref>

== Etymology == The name 'api' meaning fire in Indonesian, was chosen due to the fire orange color of the fishes caudal and dorsal fin. A pigmentation pattern appearing like fire when the fish is alive.<ref name=":0" />

== Description == its distinguishing feature from other members of its group, ''Rasbora trifasciata'' is by the black lateral line running across its flank and the stout and tall cephalic tubercles of males, meanwhile ''Rasbora nodulosa'' cephalic tubercles are smaller.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rasbora api |url=https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Rasbora-api |access-date=2023-02-16 |website=www.fishbase.se}}</ref>

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api Category:Freshwater fish of Sumatra Category:Taxa named by Daniel Lumbantobing Category:Fish described in 2010