title: Dario huli, a new species of badid from Karnataka, southern India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae).
abstract: Dario huli, new species, is described from a small tributary stream of the Tunga River in southern Karnataka, India. It can be distinguished from all its congeners except D. urops by the presence of a conspicuous black caudal-fin blotch and by anterior dorsal-fin lappets in males not being produced beyond fin spines. It is readily distinguished from Dario urops by the absence of the horizontal suborbital stripe (vs. presence), the presence of a series of up to eight black bars on the body (vs. 2-3 black bars restricted to caudal peduncle), 25 scales in a lateral row (vs. 28), 3-5 tubed lateral-line scales (vs. tubed lateral-line scales completely absent), 13+13=26 vertebrae (vs. 14+14-15=28-29), and the presence of teeth on hypobranchial 3 (vs. absence of teeth).
authors: Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW75BD, United Kingdom.; Email: r.britz@nhm.ac.uk.
authors: Ralf
authors: R
authors: Britz
authors: Conservation Research Group (CRG), Department of Fisheries, St. Albert's College, Kochi, 682 018, India.; Email: anvaraliif@gmail.com.
authors: Anvar
authors: A
authors: Ali
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005399:Fishes / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D007194:India; D008297:Male