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Pethia ticto Ticto Barb

Description

2. Pethia ticto (Hamilton, 1822) (Ticto Barb)

1822. Cyprinus ticto Hamilton, An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges: 314, 389, Pl. 8, fig. 87.

2012. Pethia ticto: Pethiyagoda et al., Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters, 23 (1): 81.

Material examined: V/4121, 5 ex, 4.0– 4.5 cm, Purna River near Mahal village, 21.xi.2019.

Distribution: Widely distributed in India. Abundantly found in the Purna and Gira rivers.

Remarks: It is a popular aquarium barb, easily identified with a long slanting black blotch above the pectoral fin and another similar but with golden edges on caudal peduncle over the end of anal fin.

Notes

Published as part of Banyal, Harinder Singh, Kumar, Sanjeev & Sharma, Indu, 2020, First report on Ichthyofaunal Diversity of Purna Wildlife Sanctuary, Dang, Gujarat, pp. 341-350 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (4) on page 344, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v120/i4/2020/149942, http://zenodo.org/record/13186627

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
V
Material sample ID
V/4121, 5
Event date
2019-11-21
Verbatim event date
2019-11-21
Scientific name authorship
Ticto Barb
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cypriniformes
Family
Cyprinidae
Genus
Pethia
Species
ticto
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pethia ticto (Hamilton, 1822) sec. Banyal, Kumar & Sharma, 2020