CEPF Western Ghats Special Series: Back from obscurity: notes on the current distribution, threats and conservation status of a poorly known cyprinid, Hypselobarbus lithopidos (Day, 1874) from the Western Ghats of India"

CEPF Western Ghats Special Series: Back from obscurity: notes on the current distribution, threats and conservation status of a poorly known cyprinid, Hypselobarbus lithopidos (Day, 1874) from the Western Ghats of India"

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Hypselobarbus lithopidos (Day, 1874) is a poorly known cyprinid fish endemic Collagen Protein to the rivers of the Western Ghats of India.This species is assessed as Data Deficient in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species with a note that it could be possibly extinct.Here, we provide information on a recent collection Sofa Table of this species from the type locality, and discuss its current distribution, ecology, threats and conservation.A revised Red List status for the species is also proposed.