Puntius kamalika

Puntius kamalika
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Barbinae
Genus:	Puntius
Species:	P. kamalika
Binomial name
	Puntius kamalika; , & Pethiyagoda, 2008

Puntius kamalika is a species of cyprinid fish in the genus Puntius. It is found in Sri Lanka.

The fish is named in honor of Kamalika “Kami” Abeyaratne (1934-2004), a Sri Lankan pediatrician who became an AIDS activist after she contracted the disease HIV through a contaminated blood transfusion given to her following a near-fatal traffic accident.^[2]

References[]

^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Puntius kamalika" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily SMILIOGASTRINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 20 November 2021.

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[1] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Puntius kamalika" in FishBase. April 2006 version.

[ETYFish-2] Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily SMILIOGASTRINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 20 November 2021.

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