Biology:Exostoma sawmteai
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Short description: Species of catfish
| Exostoma sawmteai | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Sisoridae |
| Genus: | Exostoma |
| Species: | E. sawmteai
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| Binomial name | |
| Exostoma sawmteai Lalramliana, Lalronunga, Lalnuntluanga & H. H. Ng, 2015
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Exostoma sawmteai is a species of sisorid catfish from the Pharsih River, which is a tributary of the Tuivai River in the Barak River drainage in Mizoram, northeast India.[1] This species reaches a length of 8.5 cm (3.3 in). [2]
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of Sawmtea Vanalalmalsawma, a field assistant to Lalramliana, who helped collecting specimens.[3]
References
- ↑ Lalramliana, Lalronunga, S., Lalnuntluanga & Ng, H.H. (2015): [Exostoma sawmteai, a new sisorid catfish from northeast India (Teleostei: Sisoridae)https://pfeil-verlag.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ief26_1_03.pdf]. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 26 (1): 59-64.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Exostoma sawmteai" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ↑ "Order SILURIFORMES: Families AKYSIDAE, AMBLYCIPITIDAE, SISORIDAE and AMPHILIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/siluriformes7/.
Wikidata ☰ Q21262556 entry
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