A new species of Stolephorus (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae) from the Bay of Bengal, India.

A new fish species, Stolephorus tamilensis sp. nov., is described from the East coast of India.

Multigene barcoding and phylogeny of selected Engraulidae species.

Anchovies (Engraulidae) are one of the ecologically important groups and often difficult to identify due to their small size and overlapping morphological characters. In the present study, reference DNA barcodes were generated for 82 individuals representing 13 species of Engraulidae family using mitochondrial Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and 16S rRNA genes. The average genetic distance value of COI gene for conspecific, congeneric and confamilial is 0.