Rajeev Raghavan

{{Short description|Indian conservation biologist}}

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| name = Rajeev Raghavan

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| birth_place = Kerala State, Kochi, India

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| occupation = Assistant Professor, Fisheries Scientist

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| known_for = Freshwater Fish Conservation, Fish Systematics

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| boards = [http://www.mahseertrust.org Mahseer Trust], [https://shoalconservation.org/ SHOAL Conservation], [https://fwlife.org/ Freshwater Life], [https://www.fishconserve.org/ Fisheries Conservation Foundation]

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| awards = FSBI MEDAL 2023 [https://fsbi.org.uk/about/medals/]

| website = http://www.fishlab.in

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| alma_mater = St. Albert's College,
University of Madras,
Wuhan Institute of Hydrobiology,
University of Kent

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| discipline = Conservation Biology, Fisheries science

| sub_discipline = Freshwater Fish Conservation, Fish Systematics, Molecular ecology, Inland Fisheries

| workplaces = Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies International Union for Conservation of Nature

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Rajeev Raghavan is a fisheries scientist and aquatic conservation biologist known for his work on the freshwater fishes of the Indian subcontinent.{{cite web|url=https://shoalconservation.org/an-interview-with-rajeev-raghavan/|title= An interview with Rajeev Raghavan – SHOAL Conservation|access-date=23 Oct 2022}} 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.,{{cite web|url=http://www.iucnffsg.org/about-ffsg/south-asia-office/|title=IUCN Freshwater Fish Specialist Group|access-date=18 Aug 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.easternmirrornagaland.com/professors-to-study-freshwater-conservation/|title=Professors to study freshwater conservation - Eastern Mirror|access-date=26 Aug 2017}} and the IUCN Freshwater Fish Red List Authority Coordinator for Asia and Oceania.

Rajeev has to his credit more than 200 publications {{cite web|url=https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=59OFWwcAAAAJ&hl=en|title= Rajeev Raghavan|access-date=23 Oct 2022}} and has been listed in the Elsevier/Scopus Top 2% Scientists of the World for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 {{cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/kufos-faculty-member-named-among-worlds-top-scientists/article67399622.ece|title= Kufos faculty member named among world’s top scientists|access-date=15 Oct 2023}}

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,{{cite web|url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4683.4.8|title= Channa rara, a new species of snakehead fish from the Western Ghats region of Maharashtra, India (Teleostei: Labyrinthici: Channidae)|access-date=23 Oct 2022}} and a hill-stream loach Indoreonectes rajeevi.{{cite web|url= https://vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/62814/|title= Two new species of the hillstream loach genus Indoreonectes from the northern Western Ghats of India (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)|access-date=23 Oct 2022}}