Ralf Britz

Ralf Britz, ichthyologist.

Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom.
E-mail: r.britz@nhm.ac.uk

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Kullander, S.O. & Britz, R. 2002. Revision of the family Badidae (Teleostei: Perciformes), with a description of a new genus and ten new species. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 13(4): 295–372. Reference page.

Britz, R. & Ferraris, C.J., jr. 2003. A new species of the Asian catfish genus Pseudolaguvia from Myanmar (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Erethistidae). Zootaxa 388: 1–8. Abstract & excerpt PDF Reference page.

Britz, R.; Ali, A.; Philip, S. 2012: Dario urops, a new species of badid fish from the Western Ghats, southern India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae). Zootaxa 3348: 63–68. Preview Reference page.
Britz, R., Kottelat. M, & Tan, H.H. 2012. Fangfangia spinicleithralis, a new genus and species of miniature cyprinid fish from the peat swamp forests of Borneo (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 22(4): 327–335, 4 figs., 1 tab. PDF. Reference page.
Britz, R., Kumar, K. & Baby, F. 2012. Pristolepis rubripinnis, a new species of fish from southern India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Pristolepididae). Zootaxa 3345: 59–68. Preview Reference page.

Britz, R. 2013: Channa andrao, a new species of dwarf snakehead from West Bengal, India (Teleostei:Channidae). Zootaxa 3731(2): 287–294. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3731.2.9 Reference page.

Toledo-Piza, M., Mattox, G.M.T. & Britz, R. 2014. Priocharax nanus, a new miniature characid from the rio Negro, Amazon basin (Ostariophysi: Characiformes), with an updated list of miniature Neotropical freshwater fishes. Neotropical Ichthyology 12(2): 229–246. DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20130171 Reference page.

Kullander, S.O. & Britz, R. 2015. Description of Danio absconditus, new species, and redescription of Danio feegradei (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), from the Rakhine Yoma hotspot in south-western Myanmar. Zootaxa 3948(2): 233–247. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3948.2.5 Preview (PDF). Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Mattox, G.M.T., Britz, R. & Toledo-Piza, M. 2016. Osteology of Priocharax and remarkable developmental truncation in a miniature Amazonian fish (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae). Journal of Morphology 277: 65–85. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20477 Reference page.
Britz, R. 2016. Pillaiabrachia siniae, a new species of earthworm eel from northern Myanmar (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Chaudhuriidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 27(1): 41–47, 6 figs., 2 tabs. Abstract (PDF). Reference page.
Dahanukar, N., Raghavan, R., Ali, A. & Britz, R. 2016. Amblyceps accari, a new species of torrent catfish (Teleostei: Amblycipitidae) from the Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa 4109(2): 218–226. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.2.6 Reference page.

Britz, R., Adamson, E., Raghavan, R., Ali, A. & Dahanukar, N. 2017. Channa pseudomarulius, a valid species of snakehead from the Western Ghats region of peninsular India (Teleostei: Channidae), with comments on Ophicephalus grandinosus, O. theophrasti and O. leucopunctatus. Zootaxa 4299(4): 529–545. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.4.4. Reference page.
Raghavan, R., Dahanukar, N. & Britz, R. 2017. The type locality of Tor mosal (Hamilton, 1822) (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa 4317(3): 593–596. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.3.12. Reference page.

Adamson, E.A.S. & Britz, R. 2018. The snakehead fish Channa aurolineata is a valid species (Teleostei: Channidae) distinct from Channa marulius. Zootaxa 4514(4): 542–552. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.4.7 Reference page.
Britz, R., Anoop, V.K. & Dahanukar, N. 2018. Dario neela, a new species of badid fish from the Western Ghats of India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae). Zootaxa 4429(1): 141–148. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.1.6 Reference page.
Katwate, U., Kumkar, P., Britz, R., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. 2018. The identity of Aplocheilus andamanicus (Köhler, 1906) (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes), an endemic Killifish from the Andaman Islands, with notes on Odontopsis armata van Hasselt. Zootaxa 4382(1): 159–174. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4382.1.6 Reference page.

Adamson, E.A.S., Britz, R. & Lieng, S. 2019. Channa auroflammea, a new species of snakehead fish of the Marulius group from the Mekong River in Laos and Cambodia (Teleostei: Channidae). Zootaxa 4571(3): 398–408. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.3.7 Reference page.
Anoop, V.K., Britz, R., Arjun, C.P., Dahanukar, N. & Raghavan, R. 2019. Pangio bhujia, a new, peculiar species of miniature subterranean eel loach lacking dorsal and pelvic fins from India (Teleostei: Cobitidae). Zootaxa 4683(1): 144–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4683.1.8 Reference page.
Britz, Ralf, Anoop, V.K., Dahanukar, N. & Raghavan, R. 2019. The subterranean Aenigmachanna gollum, a new genus and species of snakehead (Teleostei: Channidae) from Kerala, South India. Zootaxa 4603(2): 377–388. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4603.2.10 Reference page.
Britz, R., Dahanukar, N., Anoop, V.K. & Ali, A. 2019. Channa rara, a new species of snakehead fish from the Western Ghats region of Maharashtra, India (Teleostei: Labyrinthici: Channidae). Zootaxa 4683(4): 589–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4683.4.8 Reference page.

Britz, R., Dahanukar, N., Anoop, V.K., Philip, S., Clark, B., Raghavan, R. & Rüber, L. 2020. Aenigmachannidae, a new family of snakehead fishes (Teleostei: Channoidei) from subterranean waters of South India. Scientific Reports 10: 16081. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-73129-6 Reference page.
Sudasinghe, H., Adamson, E.A.S., Ranasinghe, R.H.T., Meegaskumbura, M., Ikbe, C. & Britz, R. 2020. Unexpected species diversity within Sri Lanka’s snakehead fishes of the Channa marulius group (Teleostei: Channidae). Zootaxa 4747(1): 113–132. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4747.1.4 Reference page.

Britz, R. 2022. Comments on the holotype of Orthragoriscus alexandrini, Ranzani 1839 (Teleostei: Molidae). Zootaxa 5195(4): 391–392. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5195.4.6 Reference page.

Britz, R., Tan, H.H. & Rüber, L. 2024. Four new species of Channa from Myanmar (Teleostei, Labyrinthici, Channidae). Raffles bulletin of Zoology 72: 1–25. DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2024-0001. . Reference page.