RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The identity and distribution of <em>Bhavania annandalei</em> Hora 1920 (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae), a hillstream loach endemic to the Western Ghats of India
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2020.04.24.060103
DO 10.1101/2020.04.24.060103
A1 Remya L. Sundar
A1 V.K. Anoop
A1 Arya Sidharthan
A1 Neelesh Dahanukar
A1 Rajeev Raghavan
YR 2020
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/04/27/2020.04.24.060103.abstract
AB Bhavania annandalei Hora 1920, is resurrected from the synonymy of B. australis (Jerdon 1849) based on examination of freshly collected topotypic specimens. The two species can be distinguished by a combination of morphological, morphometric and meristic characters, and by genetic distance using mitochondrial cox1 gene. The distribution of B. annandalei is restricted to the river systems draining the Agasthyamalai hills, below the Shencottah Gap in southern Western Ghats.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.