Resolving the taxonomic enigma of the iconic game fish, the hump-backed mahseer from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India

• Adrian C. Pinder ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: apinder@bournemouth.ac.uk

  Affiliations Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Dorset, United Kingdom, Mahseer Trust, Freshwater Biological Association, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2175-9337

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• Arunachalam Manimekalan,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India

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• J. D. Marcus Knight,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation India Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, New Delhi, India

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• Prasannan Krishnankutty,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Mahatma Gandhi College, Thiruvananthapuram, India

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• J. Robert Britton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Dorset, United Kingdom

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• Siby Philip,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Nirmalagiri College, Kannur, India

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• Neelesh Dahanukar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India, Zoo Outreach Organization (ZOO), Coimbatore, India

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• Rajeev Raghavan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Mahseer Trust, Freshwater Biological Association, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom, Zoo Outreach Organization (ZOO), Coimbatore, India, Department of Fisheries Resource Management, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies Kochi, Kerala, India

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