Diamond Rajakumar Tenali, Virendra Kumar, Nutangi Anusha and Ritesh Debbarma
Abstract
Badis singenensis (Geetakumari and Kadu, 2011) is first time recorded from the Darakonda hill stream water bodies of Sabari tributary of River Godavari, Eastern Ghats, Andhra Pradesh, India based on the whole completion of detailed morphometric and meristic data of the collected specimens that form the basis of this new record are presented. Badis singenensis is identified by a unique combination of characteristics such as three distinct black blotches at the base of the dorsal fin: the first is behind the third spine, the second is behind the sixth dorsal spine, and the third is behind the fifth and sixth soft dorsal rays. There is a prominent spherical black blotch positioned postero-dorsally situated on the opercle at the base of the opercle spine, covering many scales. Its close congerners, B. assamensis and B. blosyrus, are distinguished from this species by the black patch at the base behind the fifth soft anal fin ray. lateral line with 29-31 scales.