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Dawkinsia tambraparniei

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Species of fish

Dawkinsia tambraparniei
Conservation status

Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Barbinae
Genus: Dawkinsia
Species: D. tambraparniei
Binomial name
Dawkinsia tambraparniei
(Silas, 1954)
Synonyms
  • Puntius arulius tambraparniei Silas, 1954
  • Puntius tambraparniei Silas, 1954

Dawkinsia tambraparniei is a species of cyprinid fish found in the Tambraparni River basin in the Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. This species can reach a length of 12.8 centimetres (5.0 in) SL.

Taxonomy

Dawkinsia tambraparniei was originally described as the subspecies Puntius arulius tambraparniei  from the Tamiraparani River by E.G. Silas in 1953. This species was later classified under the new genus Dawkinisia.

Threats

This species population has significantly decreased in recent years due to human activities such as sand mining.

References

  1. Dahanukar, N. 2011. Puntius tambraparniei. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org Archived 27 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine>. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Dawkinsia tambraparniei". FishBase. April 2013 version.
  3. Prem Kumar, K.; Padmanabhan, K.G.; Balasubramanian, N.K. (31 December 1984). "A note on the length-weight relationship of Puntius amphibius (Val.) (Pisces-Cyprinidae)". Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria. 14 (1–2): 59–64. doi:10.3750/aip1984.14.1-2.04. ISSN 0137-1592.
  4. Kannan, Karuppiah; Johnson, Jeyaraj; Kumar, Ajit; Gupta, Sandeep (31 March 2014). "Mitochondrial DNA variation in the endangered fish Dawkinsia tambraparniei (Actinopterygii: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from southern Western Ghats, India". Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria. 44 (1): 3–8. doi:10.3750/aip2014.44.1.01. ISSN 0137-1592.
Taxon identifiers
Dawkinsia tambraparniei


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