Glyptothorax jayarami, a new species of catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Mizoram, northeastern India

A new sisorid catfish, Glyptothorax jayarami, is described from the Kaladan basin of Mizoram, India by Ms Yumnam Rameshori and Prof Waikhom Vishwanath, Manipur University, Manipur, India.

 It is characteristic in having densely tuberculate skin; an elongate, ovoid thoracic adhesive apparatus with an oval central depression from which the ridges on the apparatus diverge; two blackish-brown blotches at caudal-fin base behind the hypural plate; well developed plicae on the ventral surfaces of simple and adjacent branched rays of pectoral and pelvic fins; a narrow caudal peduncle (5.5–7.9 % SL) and long 2 + 6–7 gill rakers on the first branchial arch.

Barilius profundus, a new cyprinid fish (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Koladyne basin, India

Barilius profundus, a new species of bariline cyprinid fish is described from the Koladyne River, Mizoram, India by M. Dishma and Prof. W. Vishwanath, Manipur University, Manipur, India.

 

It is distinguished from congeners in having the following combination of characters: great body depth at dorsal-fin origin (32.0–37.3 % SL), 17–18 pre-dorsal scales, 7–10 dark blue bars on the sides of the body, 30–32 + 2–3 lateral line scales, ½7/1/2½ lateral transverse scales and 12 circumpeduncular scales.