Carinotetraodon imitator

Carinotetraodon imitator
Conservation status
	; Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Tetraodontidae
Genus:	Carinotetraodon
Species:	C. imitator
Binomial name
	Carinotetraodon imitator; Britz & Kottelat, 1999

Carinotetraodon imitator,^[2] commonly known as dwarf Malabar puffer, is a species of pufferfish found in rivers in the Western Ghats of India. It resembles the closely related C. travancoricus.^[1] It can be distinguished from its congener as the males have brighter yellow coloration than males of C.travancoricus as well as lacking the iridescent blue lines behind the eye. Females are less brightly colored and possess a fine speckling of black spots in place of the larger black blotches of C.travancoricus.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Template:IUCN2014.3
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Carinotetraodon imitator". FishBase. November 2014 version.
^ {{Raghavan, Rajeev, Ralf Britz, Krishna Kumar, Siby Philip, and Anvar Ali. "Irst Record from the Wild of Carinotetraodon Imitatorin Peninsular India (Teleostei: Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae)." Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 23.3 (2012): 105-09. ResearchGate.net. Web. 11 Apr. 2016.}}

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[iucn-1] Template:IUCN2014.3

[FishBase-2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Carinotetraodon imitator". FishBase. November 2014 version.

[3] {{Raghavan, Rajeev, Ralf Britz, Krishna Kumar, Siby Philip, and Anvar Ali. "Irst Record from the Wild of Carinotetraodon Imitatorin Peninsular India (Teleostei: Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae)." Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 23.3 (2012): 105-09. ResearchGate.net. Web. 11 Apr. 2016.}}

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