A new species of filament barb found in the Western Ghats

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Collaborative research by scientists from the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Mumbai and the Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS), Kochi has discovered a new species of the charismatic filament barb from the northern part o...

Filament barbs, classified under genus Dawkinsia, are a group of small freshwater fishes, found in the rivers of peninsular India and Sri Lanka. With the addition of this new species from the Konkan part of the Western Ghats, the number of known spec...