{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,29]],"date-time":"2025-08-29T00:01:11Z","timestamp":1756425671612,"version":"3.44.0"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Magnolia Press","issue":"3","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Zootaxa"],"abstract":"<jats:p>The confusion surrounding the identity of Pristolepis malabarica, until now considered to be a synonym of P. marginata, is cleared up using morphometric, meristic and genetic data generated from topotypic specimens. Pristolepis malabarica can be clearly distinguished from P. marginata in having fewer anal-fin spines, and by the colour of the dorsal-, anal- and caudal fin-margins. Both species are also separated by a raw pair-wise genetic distance of 11.5\u201313.2% in mitochondrial COI sequences. Pristolepis procerus, described from the Chaliyar River, lacks characters that distinguish it from P. malabarica, and is hence considered a junior synonym of the latter. Distributed on both sides of the Palghat Gap, a significant biogeographic barrier, Pristolepis malabarica is likely the widest-ranging species of the genus in the Western Ghats.\n\u00a0<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.11646\/zootaxa.5686.3.7","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,27]],"date-time":"2025-08-27T23:20:22Z","timestamp":1756336822000},"page":"438-446","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The identity of Pristolepis malabarica (G\u00fcnther 1864) and Pristolepis procerus Plamoottil 2017, its junior synonym (Anabantiformes: Pristolepididae)"],"prefix":"10.11646","volume":"5686","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4699-5499","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"ANJANA PREETHA","family":"PRAKASH","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0610-261X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"RAJEEV","family":"RAGHAVAN","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0126-4660","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"RALF","family":"BRITZ","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2182-3017","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"ANVAR","family":"ALI","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"4913","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,28]]},"container-title":["Zootaxa"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/mapress.com\/zt\/article\/download\/zootaxa.5686.3.7\/57085","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/mapress.com\/zt\/article\/download\/zootaxa.5686.3.7\/57085","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,27]],"date-time":"2025-08-27T23:20:22Z","timestamp":1756336822000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/mapress.com\/zt\/article\/view\/zootaxa.5686.3.7"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,28]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"3","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,28]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.11646\/zootaxa.5686.3.7","relation":{},"ISSN":["1175-5334","1175-5326"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1175-5334","type":"electronic"},{"value":"1175-5326","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,28]]}}}