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Barilius torsai (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), a new freshwater fish from the Brahmaputra drainage, India

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1424/
https://www.threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/4746#:~:text=The%20new%20species%20is%20distinguished,maxillary%2C%20which%20reaches%20the%20orbit.
10.11609/jott.4746.11.14.14808-14815
 
Title Barilius torsai (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), a new freshwater fish from the Brahmaputra drainage, India
 
Creator Kumari, Kavita
Manas, H M
Sinha, Archana
Borah, Simanku
Das, B K
 
Subject Conservation
Fish Taxonomy
 
Description Barilius torsai is described from the Torsa, a tributary of Brahmaputra River system in West Bengal, India. The new species is distinguished from all its congeners by the presence of a complete lateral line with 52–53 scales, 29 pre-dorsal scales, pectoral fin notched, two well-developed pairs of barbels (rostral and maxillary), length of rostral barbel slightly larger than maxillary, which reaches the orbit. Tubercles on snout and lower jaw absent, 9–11 blue vertical bars along the body, dorsal fin hyaline with dark pigment concentrated along lower two-third of the dorsal-fin rays.
 
Date 2019
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1424/1/Journal%20of%20Threatened%20Taxa_2019_Manas%20H%20M.pdf
Kumari, Kavita and Manas, H M and Sinha, Archana and Borah, Simanku and Das, B K (2019) Barilius torsai (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), a new freshwater fish from the Brahmaputra drainage, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 11 (14). pp. 14808-14815.