Hypselobarbus
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Hypselobarbus
Bleeker, 1860
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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 14 recognized species in this genus:
- Hypselobarbus canarensis (Jerdon, 1849) [2]
- 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 [3]
- Hypselobarbus lithopidos (F. Day, 1874) (Canara barb)
- Hypselobarbus menoni Arunachalam, S. Chinnaraja, Chandran & Mayden, 2014 [3]
- Hypselobarbus micropogon (Valenciennes, 1842) (Korhi barb)
- Hypselobarbus periyarensis (B. S. Raj, 1941)
- Hypselobarbus pulchellus (F. Day, 1870)
- Hypselobarbus tamiraparaniei Arunachalam, S. Chinnaraja, Chandran & Mayden, 2014 [3]
- Hypselobarbus vaigaiensis Arunachalam, S. Chinnaraja, Chandran & Mayden, 2014 [3]
References
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- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 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.
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