Pethia punctata

Pethia punctata

Taxonavigation: Cyprinoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cyprinoidei

Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Smiliogastrinae
Genus Pethia
Species: Pethia punctata

Name

Pethia punctata (Day, 1865)

• Syntypes and/or Day specimens: AMS B.7746 (1); MCZ 4303 (1); NMW 54489-90 (2); RMNH 2545 (1); ZIN 8331 (1).

Type locality: Cochin, India.

Synonyms

• Puntius punctatus Day, 1865
• Puntius muvattupuzhaensis Jameela Beevi & Ramachandran, 2005
  • Pethia muvattupuzhaensis (Jameela Beevi & Ramachandran, 2005) -- Pethiyagoda et al., 2012

References

• Day, F. 1865. On the fishes of Cochin, on the Malabar Coast of India. Part II. Anacanthini. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865(1): 286–318. BHL Reference page. 
• Katwate, U., Raghavan, R., Paingankar, M.S. & Dahanukar, N. 2014. Pethia lutea, a new species of barb (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) and new records of P. punctata from Northern Western Ghats of India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 6(6): 5797–5818. DOI: 10.11609/JoTT.o3929.5797-818Reference page.