Biology:Paracanthocobitis mackenziei

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Short description: Species of fish

Robust zipper loach
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Acanthocobitis
Subgenus: Paracanthocobitis
Species:
P. mackenziei
Binomial name
Paracanthocobitis mackenziei
(B. L. Chaudhuri, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Nemachilus mackenziei Chaudhuri, 1910

Acanthocobitis (Paracanthocobitis) mackenziei also known as the robust zipper loach is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus, or subgenus, Paracanthocobitis. This species is the most widely distributed species of Paracanthocobitis and is known from the Ganges River basin of Nepal and India , the Meghna River basin in Bangladesh, the Mahanadi River basin in eastern India , and the upper Indus River basin of northern India and eastern Pakistan .[1] Fishbase treats P. (A). mackenziei under Nemachilus mackenziei as a synonym of Acnthocobitis botia.[2]

References

  1. Singer, R.A. & Page, L.M. (2015): Revision of the Zipper Loaches, Acanthocobitis and Paracanthocobitis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae), with Descriptions of Five New Species. Copeia, 103 (2): 378–401.
  2. "Synonyms of Acanthocobitis botia (Hamilton, 1822)". Fishbase. http://www.fishbase.se/Nomenclature/SynonymsList.php?ID=12256&SynCode=57773&GenusName=Acanthocobitis&SpeciesName=botia. Retrieved 28 December 2017. 

Wikidata ☰ Q20721601 entry