Abstract
While conducting suveys for potential ornamental fishes in the fresh water bodies of the river Periyar, three specimens of Danio fraseri Hora and Mukherji, were collected from a stream joining to the river Periyar, at Destom, near Alwaye on 06 October 2001. I is the only species so far known under the genus Danio with a hypertrophied lower lip forming a loose flap along thelower jaw. This is new locality record for Kerala and southern Western Ghats.