Sahyadria chalakkudiensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyprinoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cyprinoidei

Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Smiliogastrinae
Genus Sahyadria
Species: Sahyadria chalakkudiensis

Name

Sahyadria chalakkudiensis (Menon et al., 1999)

• Holotype: SRS/ZSI F.3749.
• Paratype: SRS/ZSI F.3750 (1).

Type locality: Chalakkudi River, western Ghats, Trichur, Kerala, India.

Etymology: The specific name refers to the type locality of the species, the Chalakkudi River.

Synonyms

• Puntius chalakkudiensis Menon et al., 1999

References

• Menon, A. G. K., Rema Devi, K. & Thobias, M. P.; 1999: Puntius chalakkudiensis, a new colourful species of Puntius (family: Cyprinidae) fish from Kerala, South India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 97 (4): 61–63.
• Raghavan, R., Philip, S., Ali, A. & Dahanukar, N. 2013. Sahyadria, a new genus of barbs (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Western Ghats of India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5(15): 4932–4938. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o3673.4932-8 Reference page. 

Links

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