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Rajeev Raghavan | |
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| Born | |
| Occupation(s) | Assistant Professor, Fisheries Scientist |
| Known for | Freshwater Fish Conservation, Fish Systematics |
| Board member of | Mahseer Trust, SHOAL Conservation, Freshwater Life, Fisheries Conservation Foundation |
| Awards | FSBI MEDAL 2023 [1] |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | St. Albert's College, University of Madras, Wuhan Institute of Hydrobiology, University of Kent |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Conservation Biology, Fisheries science |
| Sub-discipline | Freshwater Fish Conservation, Fish Systematics, Molecular ecology, Inland Fisheries |
| Institutions | Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies International Union for Conservation of Nature |
| Website | http://www.fishlab.in |
Rajeev Raghavan is a fisheries scientist and aquatic conservation biologist known for his work on the freshwater fishes of the Indian subcontinent.[1] Rajeev is currently an Assistant Professor at the Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, Kochi, India, the South Asia Chair of the IUCN’s Freshwater Fish Specialist Group.,[2][3] and the IUCN Freshwater Fish Red List Authority Coordinator for Asia and Oceania.
Rajeev has to his credit more than 200 publications [4] and has been listed in the Elsevier/Scopus Top 2% Scientists of the World for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 [5]
In honour of Rajeev's research contributions to Indian ichthyology, two fish species have been named after him - a snakehead from the northern Western Ghats, Channa rara,[6] and a hill-stream loach Indoreonectes rajeevi.[7]
- ^ "An interview with Rajeev Raghavan – SHOAL Conservation". Retrieved 23 Oct 2022.
- ^ "IUCN Freshwater Fish Specialist Group". Retrieved 18 Aug 2017.
- ^ "Professors to study freshwater conservation - Eastern Mirror". Retrieved 26 Aug 2017.
- ^ "Rajeev Raghavan". Retrieved 23 Oct 2022.
- ^ "Kufos faculty member named among world's top scientists". Retrieved 15 Oct 2023.
- ^ "Channa rara, a new species of snakehead fish from the Western Ghats region of Maharashtra, India (Teleostei: Labyrinthici: Channidae)". Retrieved 23 Oct 2022.
- ^ "Two new species of the hillstream loach genus Indoreonectes from the northern Western Ghats of India (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)". Retrieved 23 Oct 2022.