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Barilius Torsai (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), a New Freshwater Fish from the Brahmaputra Drainage, India PLATINUM The Journal of Threatened Taxa (JoTT) is dedicated to building evidence for conservaton globally by publishing peer-reviewed artcles online OPEN ACCESS every month at a reasonably rapid rate at www.threatenedtaxa.org. All artcles published in JoTT are registered under Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License unless otherwise mentoned. JoTT allows allows unrestricted use, reproducton, and distributon of artcles in any medium by providing adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publicaton. Journal of Threatened Taxa Building evidence for conservaton globally www.threatenedtaxa.org ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Communication Barilius torsai (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), a new freshwater fish from the Brahmaputra drainage, India Kavita Kumari, Manas Hoshalli Munivenkatappa, Archana Sinha, Simanku Borah & Basanta Kumar Das 26 November 2019 | Vol. 11 | No. 14 | Pages: 14808–14815 DOI: 10.11609/jot.4746.11.14.14808-14815 For Focus, Scope, Aims, Policies, and Guidelines visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0 For Artcle Submission Guidelines, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions For Policies against Scientfc Misconduct, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-2 For reprints, contact <[email protected]> The opinions expressed by the authors do not refect the views of the Journal of Threatened Taxa, Wildlife Informaton Liaison Development Society, Zoo Outreach Organizaton, or any of the partners. 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Partner Member Threatened Taxa Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 November 2019 | 11(14): 14808–14815 Barilius torsai (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), Communication a new freshwater fish from the Brahmaputra drainage, India ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) 1 2 3 ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Kavita Kumari , Manas Hoshalli Munivenkatappa , Archana Sinha , Simanku Borah 4 & Basanta Kumar Das 5 PLATINUM OPEN ACCESS 1,2,3,5 ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Insttute, Monirampur (Post), Barrackpore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700120, India. 2 ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Insttute Regional Centre, Andhra University (Post), Opposite SBI Kohinoor Branch, Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh 530003, India. 4 ICAR-CIFRI Centre, HOUSEFEED Complex, Dispur (Last gate), Guwahat, Assam 781006, India. 1 [email protected], 2 [email protected], 3 [email protected], 4 [email protected] (corresponding author), 5 [email protected] Abstract: Barilius torsai is described from the Torsa, a tributary of Brahmaputra River system in West Bengal, India. The new species is distnguished from all its congeners by the presence of a complete lateral line with 52–53 scales, 29 pre-dorsal scales, pectoral fn notched, two well-developed pairs of barbels (rostral and maxillary), length of rostral barbel slightly larger than maxillary, which reaches the orbit. Tubercles on snout and lower jaw absent, 9–11 blue vertcal bars along the body, dorsal fn hyaline with dark pigment concentrated along lower two-third of the dorsal-fn rays. Keywords: Chedrini, Danioninae, taxonomy, Torsa, West Bengal. Abstract (Hindi): बरीलियस तोरसाई का वर्णन भारत के पश्चिम बंगाल में ब्रह्मपुत्र नदी प्रणाली की सहायक नदी, तोरसा से किया गया। नयी प्रजाति के इसके सजातीय प्रजातियों से भिन्न होने के लक्षण हैं-52-53 शल्कयुक्त संपूर्ण पाश्र्व रेखा, 29 पूर्व पृष्ठीय शल्क, वक्षीय पख खाँचेदार, दो जोड़े पूर्ण विकसित बारबेल ( रोस्ट्रल एवं मैक्सिलरी), रोस्ट्रल बारबेल की लम्बाई मैक्सिलरी बारबेल से थोड़ा अधिक, जो नेत्र गुहा तक पहुँचती हैं। स्नाउट एवं निचला जबड़ा पर गाँठ अनुपस्थित, शरीर पर 9-11 नीली उध्र्वाधर लकीर, पारदर्शी पृष्ठीय पंख जिसके निचले दो- तिहाई भाग पर गहरे रंग के वर्णक की अधिकता है । DOI: https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.4746.11.14.14808-14815 | ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:591E7FA3-82AC-48DE-B249-F09BBC477BE2 Editor: Rajeev Raghavan, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean studies (KUFOS), Cochin, India. Date of publicaton: 26 November 2019 (online & print) Manuscript details: #4746 | Received 05 December 2018 | Final received 09 September 2019 | Finally accepted 12 November 2019 Citaton: Kumari, K., M.H. Munivenkatappa, A. Sinha, S. Borah & B.K. Das (2019). Barilius torsai (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), a new freshwater fsh from the Brahmaputra drainage, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 11(14): 14808–14815. htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.4746.11.14.14808-14815 Copyright: © Kumari et al. 2019. Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License. JoTT allows unrestricted use, reproducton, and distributon of this artcle in any medium by adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publicaton. Funding: Indian Council of Agricultural Research under the Project-REF/ER/12/01/02. Competng interests: The authors declare no competng interests. Author details: Kavita Kumari is scientst, Fish Genetcs and Breeding at ICAR-CIFRI, Barrackpore and working on taxonomy, systematcs and stock characterisaton of fsh along with assessment of ecosystem health using molecular tools. Manas Hoshalli Munivenkatappa is scientst at ICAR-CMFRI and working on marine fsheries management, stock assessment, fsh biology and Fisheries policy. Archana Sinha is Principal scientst at ICAR-CIFRI and working on various aspects of small indigenous fsh culture and conservaton. Simanku Borah is scientst at ICAR-CIFRI Regional Centre, Guwahat and working in the feld of Fishery Biology. He is also involved in research related to ecology and habitat characterizaton of rivers and wetlands. Basanta Kumar Das is Director, ICAR-CIFRI, Barrackpore and working on the aspects of Inland Fisheries Management. Author contributon: KK—collected and analyzed specimens, examined the museum specimens, wrote fnal version of manuscript. MHM— analyzed specimens and helped in the manuscript preparaton. AS—supervised study, helped in the revision of the manuscript, SB—examined the museum specimens, helped in revision of the manuscript. BKD—supervised study, helped in the revision of the manuscript. Acknowledgements: The authors are very grateful to Prof. A. P. Sharma, Former Director, ICAR-CIFRI and Dr. V. R. Suresh, Head of Division, Riverine Ecology and Fisheries for providing facilites for the work. We also thank Director, ZSI, Kolkata, Dr. L. Kosygin Singh, In-charge Freshwater Fish Secton, Indian Museum, ZSI, Kolkata, Dr. Bikramjit Sinha, Ofcer-in-Charge, ZSI, Arunachal Pradesh, Dr. W. Vishwanath Singh, Professor, Department of Life Science, Manipur University and Dr Rameshori Yumnam, Assistant Professor, Department of Life Science, Manipur University for necessary permission and help to examine comparatve material. The authors also acknowledge Dr. M.K. Mukhopadhyay retred scientst, ICAR-CIFRI for his guidance for the study. 14808 Barilius torsai - new species from Brahmaputra Kumari et al. INTRODUCTION & Vishwanath (2012). Colour patern was recorded from fresh and preserved (10% formalin) specimens. Fishes of the genus Barilius Hamilton Voucher specimens are deposited in the Museum of (Cyprinidae:Danioninae: Chedrini) are one of the the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kolkata and at the dominant small-sized fshes occurring in hill streams ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Insttute (CIFRI), and upland rivers throughout India, Bangladesh, Barrackpore. Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, China, Iraq, and Thailand (Selim & Vishwanath 2002; Jayram 2010; Tejavej 2012; Barilius torsai sp. nov. Qin et al. 2019). Barilius was erected as a subgenus (Image 1) of Cyprinus with Cyprinus barila Hamilton, as the type urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:79FEC835-A4FA-4D27-8EC1-2EDD65616A31 (Qin et al. 2019). Howes (1980) identfed two groups within Barilius (sensu lato), corresponding to the genera Type material Barilius and Opsarius (Rainboth 1991). These bariliine Holotype: ZSI FF5542, 12.xi.2015, 26.7290N & fshes are characterised by their relatvely elongate, 89.3250E, 71.41mm SL, Torsa River, Jaldapara, Alipurduar compressed bodies with round belly, vertcal bars on the District, West Bengal, India, coll. A. Roy Chaudhary. fanks, 9–17 anal-fn rays and sub-laterally placed lateral Paratype: ZSI FF5543, 26.vii.2015, 26.7290N & line (Hamilton 1822; Howes 1980; Talwar & Jhingran 89.3250E, 74.56mm SL, data same as for holotype, coll. 1991; Tejavej 2012). Of the 36 valid species of bariliine A. Mitra; CIFRI F10003-10010, 8 ex., 26.vii.2015, 71.46– fshes, 24 have been recorded in India (Fricke et al. 74.23 mm SL, data same as for holotype, coll. A. Mitra; 2019; Qin et al. 2019). Currently, most bariliine fshes, CIFRI F10011, 12.xi.2015, 71.46mm SL, data same as for including all southeastern Asian species are assigned to holotype, coll. A. Roy Chaudhary. the genus Opsarius (Howes 1983; Rainboth 1991; Qin et al. 2019) and the genus Barilius is restricted to fve Diagnosis species characterized by an extremely shallow body: Barilius torsai is distnguished from all other species B. barila (Hamilton, 1822), B. evezardi Day, 1872, B. of Barilius by a combinaton of the following characters: modestus Day, 1872 and B. vagra (Hamilton, 1822) from lateral line complete with 52–53 scales, 29 pre-dorsal India, and B. mesopotamicus Berg, 1932 from the Tigris- scales, pectoral fn notched, two well-developed pairs Euphrates basin, based on the diagnosis of Barilius sensu of barbels (rostral and maxillary), body with 9–11 blue by Howes (1980), as well as morphological (Howes 1980; vertcal bars, dorsal fn hyaline with dark pigment 1983) and molecular phylogenetc evidence (Tang et al. concentrated along lower 2/3rd of dorsal-fn rays. 2010; Liao et al. 2011; Qin et al. 2019). During an ichthyological survey in the Torsa, a Descripton tributary of the Brahmaputra River during July and See Table 1 and Supplementary 1 for morphometric November 2015, a total of 83 individuals of a Barilius characters and image 1 for general appearance.
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