Schistura horai
| Schistura horai | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Schistura |
| Species: | S. horai
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| Binomial name | |
| Schistura horai | |
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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
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Schistura horai". FishBase. October 2017 version.
- ^ Kottelat, M. (2012). "Conspectus cobitidum: An inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. No. 26: 1–199.
- ^ "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (Stone Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
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