title: Dario kajal, a new species of badid fish from Meghalaya, India (Teleostei: Badidae).
abstract: Dario kajal, new species, is described from Seinphoh stream in the Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya, India. It can be distinguished from all other congeners by the presence of a postorbital stripe that continues behind the eye in line with the preorbital stripe and by the presence in males of a series of double bars restricted to the upper half of the body. The discovery of D. kajal in the Meghna River drainage raises the number of Dario species to five and raises interesting questions about the biogeography of the genus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW75BD, United Kingdom.; Email: r.britz@nhm.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Britz
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, POB 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.; Email: sven.kullander@nrm.se.
authors.forename: Sven O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Kullander
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D005399:Fishes / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification* / Q000502:physiology; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D013045:Species Specificity