Fish Fauna of D’ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary and adjacent areas, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Author
Dam, Debashree
Author
Kumar, Anil
text
Records of the Zoological Survey of India
2018
2018-06-26
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2
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http://dx.doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v118/i2/2018/129065
journal article
10.26515/rzsi/v118/i2/2018/129065
2581-8686
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Lepidocephalichythys annandalei
Chaudhuri, 1912
1912.
Lepidocephalus annandalei
Chaudhuri,
Rec. Indian Mus
.
,
7:
442 pl 40 figs 3, 3a, 3b (
Type
locality-Rivers Tista and Mahananda).
Common name:
Annandalei Loach
Material examined:
01 Ex. (Regd No. V/APFS/ZSI-P-506), Anchal Ghat, DWS.13.02.09
Distribution within NE:
Arunachal Pradesh
,
Meghalaya
,
Manipur
.
Distribution within
Arunachal Pradesh
:
All major drainages in
Arunachal Pradesh
.
Special remarks:
It was collected from a clear slow moving secondary stream of the
Siang River
although its natural habitat has been recorded to be clear swift stream with sandy bottom (
Talwar
&
Jhingran
). In the national level its status has been evaluated as LRnt and it is widely distributed in
Arunachal Pradesh
. It is similar to
L. guntea
and can be distinguished by the presence of two blackish spots or blotches in the caudal fin
.