Hypselobarbus
| Hypselobarbus | |
|---|---|
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| Hypselobarbus mussullah | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Genus: | Hypselobarbus Bleeker, 1860 |
Hypselobarbus is a genus of cyprinid fishes endemic to India. This freshwater fish found only in India's Cauvery Basin is on the 'brink of extinction' due to pollution, sand extraction and hydel power projects.[1]
Species
There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus:
- Hypselobarbus canarensis (Jerdon, 1849) [2]
- Hypselobarbus carnaticus (Jerdon, 1849) (Carnatic carp) [3]
- Hypselobarbus curmuca (F. Hamilton, 1807) (Curmuca barb)
- Hypselobarbus dobsoni (F. Day, 1876) (Krishna carp)
- Hypselobarbus dubius (F. Day, 1867) (Nilgiris barb)
- Hypselobarbus jerdoni (F. Day, 1870) (Jerdon's carp)
- Hypselobarbus kolus (Sykes, 1839) (Kolus barb)
- Hypselobarbus kurali Menon & Rema Devi, 1995 [4]
- Hypselobarbus lithopidos (F. Day, 1874) (Canara barb)
- Hypselobarbus menoni Arunachalam, Chinnaraja, Chandran & Mayden, 2014 [4]
- Hypselobarbus micropogon (Valenciennes, 1842) (Korhi barb)
- Hypselobarbus mussullah (Sykes, 1839) (Humpback mahseer) [5]
- Hypselobarbus nilgiriensis Arunachalam, Chinnaraja & Mayden, 2016 [6]
- Hypselobarbus periyarensis (B. S. Raj, 1941)
- Hypselobarbus pseudomussullah Arunachalam, Chinnaraja & Mayden, 2016 [5]
- Hypselobarbus pulchellus (F. Day, 1870)
- Hypselobarbus tamiraparaniei Arunachalam, Chinnaraja, Chandran & Mayden, 2014 [4]
- Hypselobarbus vaigaiensis Arunachalam, Chinnaraja, Chandran & Mayden, 2014 [4]
References
- ↑ "Iconic Indian fish on verge of extinction: Study". zee news.
- ↑ Knight, J.D.M., Rai, A. & D’Souza, R.K.P. (2013): On the identities of Barbus mussullah Sykes and Cyprinus curmuca Hamilton with notes on the status of Gobio canarensis Jerdon (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa, 3750 (3): 201–215.
- ↑ Yang, L., Sado, T., Hirt, M.V., Pasco-Viel, E., Arunachalam, M., Li, J., Wang, X., Freyhof, J., Saitoh, K., Simons, A.M., Miya, M., He, S. & Mayden, R.L. (2015): Phylogeny and polyploidy: Resolving the classification of cyprinine fishes (Teleostei: Cypriniformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 85: 97–116.
- 1 2 3 4 Arunachalam, M., Chinnaraja, S., Chandran, A. & Mayden, R.L. (2014): On the identies of Cyprinus (= Hypselobarbus) curmuca Hamilton, Barbus (= Hypselobarbus) kolus Sykes, and Hypselobarbus kurali Menon and Rema Devi (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), with descriptions of three new species of Hypselobarbus from peninsular India. Species, 11 (31): 72-94.
- 1 2 Arunachalam, M., Chinnaraja, S. & Mayden, R.L. (2016): Remarkable Rediscovery of Barbus (=Hypselobarbus) mussullah (Sykes) after 175 years of hiatus and description of a new species of Hypselobarbus Bleeker from peninsular India (Cyprinidae: Cypriniformes). Journal of Fish Taxonomy, 1: 1-13.
- ↑ Arunachalam, M., Chinnaraja, S. & Mayden, R.L. (2016). "New species of Hypselobarbus (Cyprinidae: Cypriniformes) from Cauvery River Basin, South India" (PDF). International Journal of Pure and Applied Zoology, 4 (1): 99–106.
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