A new catfish, Hara koladynensis from northeastern India (Siluriformes: Erethistidae)

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article in any medium for non-profit purposes, reproduction and distribution by providing adequate credit to the authors and the source of publication.Author Details: N. ANGANTHOIBI is a Project Fellow under a project funded by the National Bureau of Fish Genetic resources, Lucknow. She is working on the inventory of the catfishes of North East India and their phylogenetic analysis. She is undergoing PhD on a relevant topic in the Department of Life Sciences, Manipur University. W. VISHWANATH is a Professor in the Department of Life Sciences, Manipur University. His field of specialization is fish and fisheries. He is presently engaged in taxonomy and systematics of freshwater fishes of northeastern India.Author Contribution: The sudy: NA -survey, collection, morphometric and anatomic study of catfishes of northeastern India and their phylogenetics; WV -supervision of taxonomy and phylogeny of freshwater fishes of northeastern India. Current paper: NA -detailed examination of the erethistid catfishes of northeastern India and comparison with specimens in ZSI, Kolkata and data of the related species of neighbouring countries, establish identity of new species; WV -supervision in establishing new species and discuss taxonomic status.