''Osteobrama peninsularis'' is a species of freshwater

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or h ...

from the carp and

minnow Minnow is the common name for a number of species of small freshwater fish, belonging to several genera of the families Cyprinidae and Leuciscidae. They are also known in Ireland as pinkeens. Smaller fish in the subfamily Leusciscidae are c ...

family, the Cyprinidae. It occurs in the Indian states of

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, Maharashtra and

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. It has been recorded from the drainages of the Krishna River and the Godavari River as well as the

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. Formerly this taxon was confused with '' Osteobrama cunma'' and this means that its distribution is uncertain, although it is described as common in

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and the surrounding areas and in Karnataka. Like ''O. cunma'' it was formerly treated as a subspecies of ''

Osteobrama cotio ''Osteobrama cotio'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Osteobrama''. This species had three subspecies named ''O. cotio cotio'', '' O. cotio cunma'' and '' O. cotio peninsularis'' but these are now considered separate species. This sp ...

''.

References

Peninsularis Fish described in 1952 Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Cyprininae-stub