Sunder Lal Hora FRSE FLS (22 May 1896 – 8 December 1955) was an Indian ichthyologist known for his biogeographic theory on the affinities of Western Ghats and Indomalayan fish forms.
Hora was born at Hafizabad in the Punjab (modern day Pakistan) on 2 May 1896.
He met Thomas Nelson Annandale who visited his college in Lahore in 1919 and was invited to the Zoological Survey of India.
[3][4] The Satpura hypothesis, a zoo-geographical hypothesis proposed by him that suggests that the central Indian Satpura Range of hills acted as a bridge for the gradual migrations of Malayan fauna into the peninsula and the Western Ghats of India.
He supported the theory on the basis of torrential fishes which had special suckers to hold onto rocks.