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Title: Pangio bhujia, a new, peculiar species of miniature subterranean eel loach lacking dorsal and pelvic is fins from India (Teleostei: Cobitidae)
Authors: Anoop, V. K.
Britz, Ralf
Arjun, C. P.
DAHANUKAR, NEELESH
Raghavan, Rajeev
Dept. of Biology
Keywords: Aquifers
Freshwater fishes
Hypogean
Kerala
Western Ghats
TOC-OCT-2019
2019
Issue Date: Oct-2019
Publisher: Magnolia Press
Citation: Zootaxa, 4683(1), 144-150.
Abstract: A unique, new species of eel loach, Pangio bhujia, is described from Kerala, India. It is the first species of Pangio to be described from subterranean waters. It possesses several unusual characters including absence of both dorsal and pelvic fins, the presence of only 3 pectoral-fin rays, 6 anal-fin rays and a unique count of 38 precaudal + 24 caudal vertebrae.
URI: http://dr.iiserpune.ac.in:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/4163
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4683.1.8
ISSN: 1175-5326
1175-5334
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