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Issue: Vol. 3348 No. 1: 15 Jun. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-06-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3348.1.5
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 81
PDF downloaded: 4

Dario urops, a new species of badid fish from the Western Ghats, southern India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae)

Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW75BD, United Kingdom
Conservation Research Group (CRG), Department of Fisheries, St. Albert’s College, Kochi, 682 018, India
Conservation Research Group (CRG), Department of Fisheries, St. Albert’s College, Kochi, 682 018, India CIMAR/CIIMAR, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Universidade do Porto, Rua dos Bragas, 177, 4050-123 Porto, Portugal Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
Fish Taxonomy freshwater fish Western Ghats Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot

Abstract

Dario urops, new species, is described from a small stream of the Barapole tributary of Valapattanam River in southern Karna-taka and from Wayanad District, Kerala. It can be distinguished from its congeners by the presence of a conspicuous blackblotch on the caudal peduncle and a horizontal suborbital stripe, by the anterior dorsal fin lappets in males not being produced beyond fin spines, and by its vertebral count.

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