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Schistura sp. 7

January 9th, 2013 — 8:31pm

This fish was collected for the aquarium trade during 2012 but its identity has not yet been established.

Schistura is the most species-rich genus among nemacheilid loaches with some 190 members and it continues to grow with over 100 having be…

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Schistura sp. 6

January 9th, 2013 — 7:43pm

This fish was collected for the aquarium trade during 2012 but its identity has not yet been established.

The fish in our images were obtained at an unspecified locality in the Garo Hills, these for…

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Schistura devdevi (HORA, 1935)

Saddleback Loach

January 8th, 2013 — 2:38pm

Type locality is ‘Eastern Himalayas; small streams below Darjeeling and Sikkim, India’, and this species is only known with certainty from upland parts of Assam, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and West Bengal states in northern India.

Records from Nepal apparently require confirmation while it may also occur in Bhutan.

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Schistura savona (HAMILTON, 1822)

Half-banded Loach

January 8th, 2013 — 12:44pm

This species is seen in the aquarium trade on a relatively frequent basis and is sometimes sold as ‘bicolor loach’ in the United States.

It can be distinguished from congeners by its unique colour pattern comprising 9-10 thin, yellowish bars on a dark background in the upper part of the body, and plain whitish colouration in the lower portion.

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Schistura sp. 4

Grizzled Loach

January 6th, 2013 — 8:58pm

This species has been collected for the aquarium hobby, albeit in small numbers at time of writing, but its identity is unclear.

Though obtained from close to the type local…

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Schistura sp. 3

January 6th, 2013 — 6:57pm

The identity of this fish is unclear but it has been traded as Schistura scaturigina M’Clelland, 1839 but does not appear to be that species based on its original description plus Vishwanath and Laisram (2001).

The latter describe S. scaturigina as possessing a yellowish-white body with 12 transverse, triangu…

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Schistura aizawlensis LALRAMLIANA, 2012

January 6th, 2013 — 12:58pm

Type locality is ‘India: Mizoram: Muthi River, a tributary of Tuirial River in vicinity of Zemabawk, Aizawl, 23°44′ 54″ N 92°45’27” E’, and to date this species is known only from the Muthi system.

The Muthi is an affluent of the Tuirial River which is itself a tributary of the Barak watershed. The Barak is one of the great rivers of southern Assam and forms part of the Surma-Meghna River System.

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Schistura sp. 1

Ring Loach

January 6th, 2013 — 12:06am

The identity of this fish is somewhat unclear although it’s available in the aquarium trade on an occasional basis.

It’s been considered to represent various species including Schistura beavani, S. montana and S. himachalensis but there exi…

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Devario assamensis (BARMAN, 1984)

November 29th, 2012 — 12:28pm

Type locality is ‘Streamlets near Tangla, Darrang District, Assam, India’, but records also exist from the Mahananda River in West Bengal state and other tributaries of the lower Brahmaputra river system, some of which originate in Bhutan.

Further upstream it’s been recorded in the Kalmoni riv…

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Brachygobius nunus (HAMILTON, 1822)

November 12th, 2012 — 4:49pm

Type locality is the ‘river below Calcutta’ which corresponds to the western side of the Ganges River delta south of Kolkata, West Bengal state, with reports as to its wider distribution varying significantly.

It’s sometimes said to be present throughout India plus both mainland and maritime southeast Asia, but is more likely restricted to India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and possibly Myanmar.

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