Episode Details

Bandula Barb :: Pethia bandula

Bad at Goodbyes :: Episode 055

On today’s show we learn about the Brown's Banksia, a critically endangered flowering shrub native to southwestern Australia, about 200 miles south of Perth in the state of Western Australia.

• (00:05) Intro
• (02:05) Species Information
• (22:56) Citations
• (24:25) Music
• (30:38) Pledge

Research for today’s show was compiled from:

• Chamod, Janindu & Amarakoon, Vihanga & Gunasekara, Vimukthi & Dayawansa, Nihal. (2023). The Role Of Selected Abiotic And Biotic Factors In Changing The Abundance Of Critically Endangered, Point Endemic Pethia Bandula. Proceedings of the Postgraduate Institute of Science Research Congress: University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
• Fernado, M., Kotagama, O. & de Alwis Goonatilake, S. 2019. Pethia bandula (errata version published in 2020). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T18905A174839322. - https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T18905A174839322.en
• Kortmulder, Koenraad & Wiele, Peter. (2023). Feeding behaviour, species associations and natural diets of 10 Cyprinid fish species from South-West Sri Lanka. bioRxiv 2023.07.12.548677 – https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.12.548677
• R, Wickremasinghe & S, Muthunayake & R, Wickremasinghe & Weerakoon, Devaka & Goonatilake, Sampath & R, Ranatunge & H, Kiel & Perera, Naalin & A, Wadugodapitiya. (2021). Ecology and recovery of Pethia bandula (Pisces: Cyprinidae), a globally threatened point endemic freshwater fish in Sri Lanka.. Journal of the Sri Lanka Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 66 (2). 27-54. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48828122
• Sudasinghe, H., Ranasinghe, T., Herath, J. et al. Molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of the freshwater-fish genus Pethia (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in Sri Lanka. BMC Ecology and Evolution volume 21, 203 (2021). – https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01923-5
• Surasinghe, Thilina, Ravindra Kariyawasam, Hiranya Sudasinghe, and Suranjan Karunarathna. 2020. "Challenges in Biodiversity Conservation in a Highly Modified Tropical River Basin in Sri Lanka" Water 12, no. 1: 26. – https://doi.org/10.3390/w12010026
• Wickramasinghe, Kamanthi. 6 June 2025. Sri Lanka reaches a milestone in a decades’ long conservation effort. Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) – https://www.dailymirror.lk/news-features/Sri-Lanka-reaches-a-milestone-in-a-decades-long-conservation-effort/131-310807 or https://web.archive.org/web/20251005015550/https://www.dailymirror.lk/news-features/Sri-Lanka-reaches-a-milestone-in-a-decades-long-conservation-effort/131-310807
• Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandula_barb

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