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Issue: Vol. 3345 No. 1: 13 Jun. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-06-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3345.1.3
Page range: 59–68
Abstract views: 112
PDF downloaded: 3

Pristolepis rubripinnis, a new species of fish from southern India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Pristolepididae)

Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK
Community Environmental Resource Centre (CERC), Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) Ammankovil Street, Mullakal, Alappuzha, Kerala, India
Conservation Research Group (CRG), Department of Fisheries, St. Albert's College, Kochi 682 018, Kerala, India
Fish Taxonomy freshwater fish Western Ghats and Sri Lanka Biodiversity Hotspot

Abstract

Pristolepis rubripinnis, new species, from the Pamba and Chalakudy rivers in Kerala, India, is distinguished from all otherspecies of the genus by its colour pattern, which includes orange-red soft dorsal, soft anal and caudal fins, and a yellow toorange pelvic fin. It differs further from its southern Indian congener P. marginata in having 4 or 5 scales above the lateral line (vs. 3) and 10 scales below it (vs. 9)

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