Dawkinsia tambraparniei
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Barbinae |
| Genus: | Dawkinsia |
| Species: | D. tambraparniei
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| Binomial name | |
| Dawkinsia tambraparniei (Silas, 1954)
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Dawkinsia tambraparniei is a species of cyprinid fish found in the Tambraparni River basin in the Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. This species can reach a length of 12.8 centimetres (5.0 in) SL.[2]
Taxonomy[edit]
Dawkinsia tambraparniei was originally described as the subspecies Puntius arulius tambraparniei from the Tamiraparani River by E.G. Silas in 1953. This species was later classified under the new genus Dawkinisia.[3]
Threats[edit]
This species population has significantly decreased in recent years due to human activities such as sand mining.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Dahanukar, N. 2011. Puntius tambraparniei. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org Archived 27 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine>. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Dawkinsia tambraparniei" in FishBase. April 2013 version.
- ^ Prem Kumar, K.; Padmanabhan, K.G.; Balasubramanian, N.K. (31 December 1984). "A note on the length-weight relationship of Puntius amphibius (Val.) (Pisces-Cyprinidae)". Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria. 14 (1–2): 59–64. doi:10.3750/aip1984.14.1-2.04. ISSN 0137-1592.
- ^ Kannan, Karuppiah; Johnson, Jeyaraj; Kumar, Ajit; Gupta, Sandeep (31 March 2014). "Mitochondrial DNA variation in the endangered fish Dawkinsia tambraparniei (Actinopterygii: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from southern Western Ghats, India". Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria. 44 (1): 3–8. doi:10.3750/aip2014.44.1.01. ISSN 0137-1592.
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