''Puntius euspilurus'' is a species of
barbs native to the
Mananthavady River
Mananthavady is a municipality and ''taluk'' in the Wayanad district of Kerala, India.
Etymology
The popular view on the etymology is that the word is derived from "Maane Eytha Vady" (English: "The place where an arrow was shot at the deer"). T ...
in
Kerala
Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...
,
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
. This species reaches a length of .
[Plamoottil Mathews. Puntius euspilurus, a new fish species (cypriniformes: cyprinidae) from Kerala, India. International Journal of Research Studies in Biosciences (IJRSB) Volume 4, Issue 9, September 2016, PP 1-6]
References
euspilurus
Taxa named by Mathews Plamoottil
Fish described in 2016
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