Neolissochilus bovanicus (Day, 1877)
Bovany barb
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Barbus bovanicus Day, 1877; Barbodes bovanicus (Day, 1877); Puntius bovanicus (Day, 1877)
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1998
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Tamil Nadu, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Day, F. (1878). The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon.
Other references:
Day, F. 1889.. Fishes. In: In: W. T. Blanford (ed). (ed.), The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma., pp. i-xviii + 1-548.
Jayaram, K.C. 1991. Revision of the Genus Puntius Hamilton from the Indian region (Pisces: Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae, Cyprininae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India Occasional Paper 135: 1-178.
Jayaram, K.C., Venkateswarlu, T. & Ragunathan, M.B. 1982. A survey of the Cauvery River system with a major account of its fish fauna. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 36: 1-115.
Manimekalan, A. 1998. The fishes of Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu, South India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 95(3): 431-443.
Manimekalan, A., Dahanukar, N., Raghavan, R. and Ali, A. (2015). Neolissochilus bovanicus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 25 June 2015.
Manimekalan, A., Dahanukar, N., Raghavan, R. & Ali, A. 2015. Neolissochilus bovanicus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T172431A79816276. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-3.RLTS.T172431A79816276.en. Accessed on 09 July 2022.
Menon, A. G. K. (1999). Check list - fresh water fishes of India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper No. 175.