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Issue: Vol. 5351 No. 3: 27 Sept. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-09-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.3.5
Page range: 371-379
Abstract views: 974
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Badis limaakumi, a new species of badid fish from Nagaland, Northeast India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae)

Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute; Port Blair; Andaman and Nicobar Islands; India; 744 101.
Pisces New species Badis assamensis Badis blosyrus Milak River Brahmaputra

Abstract

Badis limaakumi, a new species of Badis from Nagaland, Northeast India is distinguished from all its congeners by the following combination of characters: a large (>60 mm SL) and slender body (23.2–28.0% of SL), presence of an opercular blotch at the base of the opercular spine, absence of blotches on the sides and fins, as well as on the cleithrum, and greater number of lateral-line scales.

 

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