title: Rita (fish)
text: # Rita (fish)
  
  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.
  
  ## Species
  
  There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus:
  
  * Rita bakalu K. K. Lal, Dwivedi & R. K. Singh, 2016
  * Rita chrysea F. Day, 1877
  * Rita gogra (Sykes, 1839)
  * Rita kuturnee (Sykes, 1839)
  * Rita macracanthus H. H. Ng, 2004
  * Rita rita (F. Hamilton, 1822)
  * Rita sacerdotum J. Anderson, 1879
  