Stefan van der Voort reports on some new discoveries…

Badis andrewraoi © Stefano Valdesalici

Two studies published recently in the journal Zootaxa have revealed five new species of Badis. These works significantly increased the species richness of the genus in West Bengal, India, and hopefully pave the way for further exploration of that and surrounding areas.

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Stefan van der Voort

Prelude: 20 December 2011—recently an article by me was published in a German hobbyist magazine and was without notification altered to such extend that it no longer represented my view from the written and submitted version. What follows here is the original, unaltered version, with only the acknowledgements chapter added.

© Stefan van der Voort

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