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Type locality of Dario urops
Male of Dario urops
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in this respect. Nikhil Sood maintained these animals successfully for several
months in a cool aquarium with faintly moving neutral and soft water, a
sandy bottom, and a lot of leaf litter.
The third new species from the Western Ghats that we found in our nets
was a new Pangio. We named it Pangio ammophila because of its lifestyle. The
handful of specimens of this small, scaleless Pangio that we captured were
buried in the sand of the Kumaradhara River. Because of its plain appearance
it is unlikely that it will make it into the aquarium fish trade.
Another very unusual Pangio species has been described from the Western
Ghats. Pangio goaensis is known not only from Goa but also from several rivers
in Kerala, in the south. This Pangio is spectacularly striped; apparently, no
pictures of live specimens were taken.
Our small-scale collecting trip to southern India has shown that this supposedly
well-known part of India still holds many surprises, and with a little
luck, a few of them might make it into the hobby.
REFERENCES
AMAZONAS
Britz, R., A. Ali, and R. Raghavan. 2012. Pangio ammophila, a new species of eel-loach from
Karnataka, southern India (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitidae). Ichthyol Explor Freshwaters 23:
45–50.
Britz, R., A. Ali, and S. Philip. 2012. Dario urops, a new species of badid fish from the Western Ghats,
southern India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae). Zootaxa 3348: 63–68.
Britz, R., K. Kumar, and F. Baby. 2012. Pristolepis rubripinnis, a new species of fish from southern India
(Teleostei: Percomorpha: Pristolepididae). Zootaxa 3345: 59–68.
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