Abstract
Dario neela, a newly described badid fish endemic to the Western Ghats is little known to science. Distribution and ecology of this species is not well documented. In this paper, we provide information on new records of this rare fish from Wayanad region of the Western Ghats and discuss its distribution, ecology and conservation.
Highlights
The genus Dario Kullander & Britz, 2002, of the family Badidae are known by three species from the Western Ghats, viz, Dario urops Britz, Ali & Philip, 2012, D. huli Britz & Ali, 2015, and Dario neela Britz, Anoop & Dahanukar, 2018
Dario neela is the only species of badid fish known from the Western Ghats of Kerala
The present study described the distribution of this rare species in the Wayanad part of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
Summary
The genus Dario Kullander & Britz, 2002, of the family Badidae are known by three species from the Western Ghats, viz, Dario urops Britz, Ali & Philip, 2012, D. huli Britz & Ali, 2015, and Dario neela Britz, Anoop & Dahanukar, 2018. The further distribution of Dario neela is not known, the presence of Dario species in Wayanad is known from the collections by Francis Day about 140 years ago (Britz et al 2012). Specimens were collected and a few were reared in captivity to study the social and reproductive behavior of the species.
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