Biology:Schistura horai

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Short description: Species of fish

Schistura horai
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Schistura
Species:
S. horai
Binomial name
Schistura horai
(Menon, 1952)[1]
Synonyms

Nemacheilus horai Menon, 1952

Schistura horai is a species of ray-finned fish in the stone loach genus Schistura. It is found in India and Pakistan. It is named in honour of the ichthyologist Sunder Lal Hora (1896-1955), who was the Director of the Zoological Survey of India and who collected the type specimen in 1926 in Himachal Pradesh.[2][3]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). "Schistura horai" in FishBase. October 2017 version.
  2. Kottelat, M. (2012). "Conspectus cobitidum: An inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. No. 26: 1–199. http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/app/uploads/2017/06/Conspectus_cobitidum.pdf. 
  3. "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (Stone Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 2017. http://www.etyfish.org/loaches3/. Retrieved 14 January 2018. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3755010 entry