From the introduction: River Pennar is one of the major rivers of South India and the third major river in Andhra Pradesh, after Godavari and Krishna. There is no published work on the fish fauna of this river system except the following works of general nature in which it is mentioned in distribution, generally as Peninsular India or Southern India or Madras Presidency: Day 1875-1878, 1889, Jayaram 1981, 1982, 1999, Jerdon 1849 Hamilton 1822 Menon 1999, Misra ...
