subunits of the head as proportions of head length. Fin rays were counted under a Nikon SMZ800 stereo-zoom
microscope. Gill raker and vertebral counts, and institutional abbreviations follow Rameshori and Vishwanath
(2012a). Numbers in parentheses after a count indicate the frequency of that count. The type specimens are
deposited at the Rajiv Gandhi University Museum of Fishes (RGUMF), Doimukh, Arunachal Pradesh.