Mystus irulu, a new species of bagrid catfish from the Western Ghats of Karnataka India (Teleostei: Bagridae) Author Vijayakrishnan, Balaji A 1101, Synchronicity CHS, Lok Milan Colony, Chandivali, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India- 400072. Author Praveenraj, Jayasimhan 0000-0002-5471-6931 Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India- 744101. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5471 - 6931 text Zootaxa 2022 2022-03-28 5120 3 443 448 journal article 20114 10.11646/zootaxa.5120.3.10 ed5ff659-8e31-478e-ab73-39630affe267 1175-5326 6389373 E011D796-0403-455A-AE47-0B9EE64DBAFA

TABLE 1. Morphometric data for Mystus irulu (n =3).

Morphometric characters	Holotype ZSI/MBRC/F- 2486	Paratype ZSI/MBRC/F- 2487	Paratype CIARI/FF–85
Standard length (mm)	120	116	128
In percent of standard length
Head length	23.5	23.5	22.2
Predorsal length	34.7	37.1	35.7
Preanal length	68.6	70.6	67.7
Prepelvic length	47.5	45.6	45.9
Prepectoral length	22.2	21.7	20.7
Dorsal-fin length	29.3	27.9	28.4
Dorsal spine length	18.7	18.2	17.5
Length of dorsal-fin base	16.3	16.3	15.7
Anal-fin length	19.5	19.9	18.6
Length of anal-fin base	13.6	12.3	12.2
Pelvic-fin length	20.2	19.2	18.9
Pectoral-fin length	20.8	21.6	20.4
Pectoral-spine length	15.6	19.1	18.8
Caudal-fin length	26.6	26.8	26.0
Length of adipose-fin base	37.2	38.4	34.2
Dorsal to adipose distance	5.6	3.7	6.8
Caudal peduncle length	21.0	19.1	19.5
Caudal peduncle depth	11.9	10.6	11.5
Body depth at anus	22.3	19.9	20.2
Post-adipose distance	10.5	9.7	9.6
Height of adipose fin	6.7	4.4	5.6
In percent of head length
Head width at pectoral fin origin	78.9	77.5	82.7
Head depth	70.5	72.1	72.5
Snout length	36.9	37.9	36.3
Interorbital width	25.0	22.0	29.8
Eye diameter	27.4	37.1	27.2