Publications

Peer reviewed articles

2025 \ accepted \ in press 

1. Raghavan, R., Sundar, R.L., Arjun, C.P., Sidharthan, A., Dharmarajan, N.P., Kumar, A.B., Philip, S., Ali, A., Paingankar, M.S., Rodrigues, G.T., Britz, R. & Dahanukar, N.* (2025) Phreatic mysteries: Diversity and distribution of fossorial and aquifer-dwelling synbranchid eels of southern peninsular India, and implications for conservation (Pisces: Synbranchiformes: Synbranchidae). Vertebrate Zoology 75: 245-258. https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.75.e155717 

2. Gurugubelli, M., Abisha, C., Arundhathy, T.A., Ranjeet, K., Dahanukar, N.* & Raghavan, R.* (2025) A megafauna in distress: Unsustainable exploitation of tiger sharks in the Arabian Sea and implications for conservation. Biological Conservation 304: 111049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111049  

3. Dann, L., Dahanukar, N. & Raghavan, R. (2025) Oreichthys warjaintia, a new species of cyprinid fish from Meghalaya, India (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae). Journal of Fish Biology 106 (3): 797-804. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.16001    

4. Prakash, A.P., Raghavan, R., Dahanukar, N., Anoop, V.K., Thampy, D.R., Britz, R. & Ali, A. (2025) Pristolepis pentacantha Plamoottil 2015, and Catopra tetracanthus Günther 1862: two junior synonyms of Pristolepis marginata Jerdon 1849. Zootaxa  5642(3):245-259. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5642.3.3 

2024 

1. Chandra, S., Abhilash, R., Sidharthan, A., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. (2024) Complete mitogenome of Lepidopygopsis typus, an evolutionarily-distinct, endangered cyprinid fish from the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot: phylogenetic relationships and implications for conservation. Gene 898: 148098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2023.148098 

2. Sudasinghe, H., Dahanukar, N., Raghavan, R., Ranasinghe, T., Wijesooriya, K., Pethiyagoda, R., Rüber, L. & Meegaskumbura, M. (2024) The loach genus Lepidocephalichthys (Telesotei: Cobitidae) in Sri Lanka and peninsular India: Multiple colonizations and unexpected species diversity. Hydrobiologia 851:1113-1133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-023-05321-4 

3. Anoop, V.K., Dahanukar, N. & Raghavan, R. (2024) Koima, a new genus of nemacheilid loach from the Western Ghats, India (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 5538(2): 101-126. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5538.2.1 

4. Das, J., Shanmughan, A., Dahanukar, N., Raghavan, R. & Ranjeet K. (2024) Bridging knowledge gaps for the conservation and management of a ‘Data Deficient’, diadromous fish: The Indo-Pacific Tarpon, Megalops cyprinoides. Marine and Freshwater Research 75: MF23222. https://doi.org/10.1071/MF23222 

5. Abisha, C., Dahanukar, N., Ranjeet K. & Raghavan, R. (2024) ‘Data-Deficient’ but potentially threatened: first biological observations on the poorly-known Quagga Catshark, Halaelurus quagga. Marine and Freshwater Research 75: MF23234. https://doi.org/10.1071/MF23234 

2023

1. Dahanukar, N., Sundar, R.L., Rangad, D., Proudlove, G. & Raghavan, R. (2023) The world’s largest cave fish from Meghalaya, Northeast India, is a new species, Neolissochilus pnar (Cyprinidae, Torinae). Vertebrate Zoology 73: 141-152. https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.73.e101011 

2. Raghavan, R., Sundar, R.L., Arjun, C.P., Britz, R. & Dahanukar, N. (2023) Evolution in the dark: Unexpected genetic diversity and morphological stasis in the blind, aquifer-dwelling catfish Horaglanis. Vertebrate Zoology 73: 57-74. https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.73.e98367 

3. Sudasinghe, H., Ranasinghe, T., Dahanukar, N., Raghavan, R., Rüber, L., Pethiyagoda, R., Meegaskumbura, M. (2023) Biogeography and evolutionary history of Puntius sensu lato (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in Sri Lanka. Scientific Reports 13: 18724. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45377-9  

2022 

1. Novák, J., Magalhães A.L.B., Faulkes, Z., Yonvitner, Maceda-Veiga, A., Dahanukar, N., Kawai, T., Kalous., L. & Patoka, J. (2022) Ornamental aquaculture significantly affected by the “Czech aquarium phenomenon”. Aquaculture 555: 738259 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2022.738259 

2. Verma, C.R., Kumkar, P., Khare, T., Pise, M., Kalous, L. & Dahanukar, N. (2022) Contracaecum nematode parasites in hillstream loaches of Western Ghats, India. Journal of Fish Diseases 45(12):1873–1882. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfd.13711 

3. Sidharthan, A., Dahanukar, N., Sundar, R.L., Ranjeet, K. & Raghavan, R. (2022) Beyond waterfalls and dams: Riverscape genetics of two endemic mountain loaches in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot. River Research and Applications 38:152–159. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3885

4. Shanmughan, A., Dahanukar, N., Harrison, A., Pinder, A.C., Ranjeet, K. & Raghavan, R. (2022) Demographics and exploitation of two ‘Near Threatened’ freshwater eels, Anguilla bengalensis and A. bicolor in small-scale subsistence fisheries and implications for conservation. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 32:269–281. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3765 

5. Kulkarni, A., Vijayan, S., Shigwan, B.K., Padhye, S., Dahanukar, N. & Datar, M.N. (2022) Environmental determinants of aquatic vegetation in rock pools of northern Western Ghats, India. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 196(1):15–26. https://doi.org/10.1127/fal/2022/1429 

6. Sundar, R.L., Arjun, C.P., Sidharthan, A., Dahanukar, N. & Raghavan, R. (2022) A new diminutive subterranean eel loach species of the genus Pangio (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from Southern India. Zootaxa 5138(1): 089–097. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5138.1.9 

7. Raghavan, R., Dahanukar, N., Anoop, V.K., Arjun, C.P. & Britz, R. (2022) Diversity and distribution of dragon snakeheads of the family Aenigmachannidae, and the identity of Aenigmachanna mahabali. Zootaxa 5120(2):295–300. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5120.2.10