AA WELL, Ettumanur, 2nd

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

The second of two separate, man-made wells (sort of -water mines- excavated from unspecified host rock: laterite?), which are the home of a blind, endogean catfish population that represents one of the five stygobiotic fish species currently known from India. SITUATION: At one of two separate locations (FERRARIS 2007: 152) without adequate positions (SUBHASH BABU & NAYER 2004) somewhere in the vicinity of Ettumanur N09°40': E076°34' (nima.mil/geonames accessed 16.11.2003) on AMS sheet NC43-12 Rajapalayam (U502 series, 1955edition) and in the India Road Atlas (Eicher Goodearth 2006: 118 B2 B3) at a travelling distance of 12 km along the road north-east from Kottayam town (N09°35': E076°31'), the district headquarters. CAVE LIFE: According to FERRARIS (2007: 152, 538), it were SUBHASH BABU & NAYER (2004) who collected specimens (holotype ZSI F313/2)) of Horaglanis krishnai (Menon 1950: 64, pl. 1 figs. 1–3), from two separate locations in Kottayam (South-West India).