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Bombay Swampeel
Monopterus indicus (Silas & Dawson, 1961)
First described in: Eapen, K. C. 1963. A new species of Monopterus from south India. Bulletin of the Department of Marine Biology Oceanogr. University of Kerala 1: 129-132.
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Monopterus indicus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5204079.