INDIA: Aphanius dispar from Guajarat – an undescribed species?

By Heiko Bleher

It was my aim for a number of years to do research in aquatic habitats of the home state of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (commonly know as Mahatma Ghandi), the man who led India to independence and who inspired movements for non-violence and freedom across the world. He was born in the coastal town of Porbandar and this was about the most northern known distribution of the main fish I was after in the state of Gujarat…

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