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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Species of ray-finned fish}}<br />
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| status = DD<br />
| status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
| status_ref = <ref>{{cite iucn |author=Dahanukar, N. |author2=Sidharthan, A. |year=2023 |title=''Rita bakalu'' |volume=2023 |article-number=e.T173139922A173139932 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T173139922A173139932.en |access-date=29 October 2024}}</ref><br />
| taxon = Rita bakalu<br />
| authority = (Lal et al., 2017)<br />
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'''''Rita bakalu''''' is a species of [[bagrid catfish]] [[endemism|endemic]] to [[India]] and belongs to the genus, ''[[Rita (fish)|Rita]]''. ''R. bakalu'' was reported from the [[Godavari River|Godavari river]] in [[peninsular India]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Lal, K.K.|author2= Dwivedi, A.K.|author3= Singh, R.K. |display-authors=et al|title=A new Bagrid catfish species, ''Rita bakalu'' (Siluriformes: Bagridae), from the Godavari River basin, India|journal=Hydrobiologia|volume=790|pages=67–81 |year=2017|doi=10.1007/s10750-016-3019-9}}</ref> Though ''R. bakalu'' looks like ''[[Rita kuturnee|R. kuturnee]]'', it differs in the structure of its teeth patches on its upper jaw and palate, the origin of its anal fin, its eye diameter, its longer mandibular barbels, and the number of vertebrae.{{cn|date=November 2024}}<br />
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