Pethia muvattupuzhaensis

Species of fish

Pethia muvattupuzhaensis

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Cypriniformes
Family:  | Cyprinidae
Genus:  | Pethia
Species:  |

P. muvattupuzhaensis

Binomial name
Pethia muvattupuzhaensis

(Jameela Beevi & Ramachandran, 2005)

Synonyms

* Puntius muvattupuzhaensis Jameela Beevi & Ramachandran, 2005

Pethia muvattupuzhaensis is a species of cyprinid fish found in Muvattupuzha and Periyar Rivers, Kerala, India. It is sometimes considered conspecific with Pethia punctata. Day, 1865 [1] This species can be found over sand or gravel substrates. This species reaches a length of 4.5 centimetres (1.8 in) SL.[2]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Katwate, U., Baby, F., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. (2014): The identity of Pethia punctata, a senior synonym of P. muvattupuzhaensis (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa, 3884 (3): 201–221.
2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2014). "Pethia muvattupuzhaensis" in FishBase. November 2014 version.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q953312
* CoL: 4FDCW
* FishBase: 63034
* GBIF: 7797983
* iNaturalist: 613361
* WoRMS: 1009308

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