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Aenigmachanna mahabali, a new species of troglophilic snakehead (Pisces: Channidae) from Kerala, India

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Basheer, V.S., Ravi, Charan (2019): Aenigmachanna mahabali, a new species of troglophilic snakehead (Pisces: Channidae) from Kerala, India. Zootaxa 4638 (3): 410-418, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.3.6

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