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Type locality is 'Tham [=cave] Phra Sai Ngam, about 200 meters from entrance, Thung Salaeng Luang National Park, Phitsanulok Province, Thailand, 16°37'22"N, 100°39'47"E', and this species is endemic to the Tham Phra Sai Ngam cave system. Tham Phra Sai Ngam is a limestone cave system about 1.7 km long and containing a subterranean stre...

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.

This species is distributed in the middle Mekong River basin in north and northeastern Thailand, Myanmar and Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, southern China, and is also known from the Nam Beng, Nam Tha and Nam Yuoan drainages in Laos. Type locality is 'Laun We (Loi Mw...

It's been considered a synonym of Schistura caudofurca (Mai, 1978) by the majority of recent authors following Kottelat (2001) but this appears to be a case of misidentification since the two species exhibit several notable differences based on their respective descriptions (Endruweit, 2010).

The type locality originally consisted of a shallow (0.5 - 1.5 m deep) stream with a substrate of rocks and boulders and flow varying from 'moderate to swift'. When the holotype was collected there in 1980 sympatric species included Acanthocobitis zonalternans, Puntius orphoides, Pethia ticto, Raiamas guttatus, Barilius barnoides, Mystacoleucus argenteus and Mastacembelus armatus plus unidentified members of Crossocheilus an...

This species is sometimes traded for aquaria but its name also appears to have been widely misapplied to other fishes. It can be identified via the following combination of characters: presence of 8-10 quite regular dark bars...

Schistura species are omnivorous although the bulk of their diet consists of small insects, worms, crustaceans and other zooplankton with only relatively small amounts of plant matter consumed, mostly via the stomach contents of prey items. In the aquarium they will acc...

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.

There appears to be some discrepancy between Smith's original description and Kottelat (1990) in that Smith states the fish is a member of a group of species lacking an ocellus at the upper caudal-fin base, whereas Kottelat mentions the presence of 'a black spot at upper extremity of caudal-fin base, surrounded by a whitish area'.

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...

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...

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...

This species is traded on a fairly regular basis and is similar in appearance to some congeners, most notably S. bella, S. mahnerti, S. multifasciata, S. poculi, S. reticulata, S. longa, S. conirostris and S. udomritthiruji. This assemblage has been referred to as the Schistura multifasciata 'group', and members share a...

Following Kottelat (1990) the genus Nemacheilus is characterised by a combination of characters as follows: elongate body; complete lateral line; presence of enlarged scales above and below the lateral line in some species; caudal-fin forked to deeply forked with enlarged upp...

This popular species was previously imported and classified as Sciaenochromis ahli, and is still named as such in much of the available literature. Many morphs exist, although males of all these exhibit the characteristic blue colouration, differing only in fin colouration and patterning. These should not be mixed in aquaria as they will hybridise. Extra care must be taken regarding tankmates, too, as male S. fryeri have been known to spawn with females of other genera, particularly Aulonoca...

This fish is one of a number of apparently unidentified Scleromystax species known in the aquarium hobby. The genus Scleromystax is included in the family Callichthyidae, of which members are often referred to collectively as 'armoured' or 'mailed' catfishes group due to the presence of bony plates in place of scales on the body.

This species' distribution is unclear although individuals from the aquarium trade are said to have been collected in the Tenasserim river basin in Tananthayi Region, southern Myanmar. Type locality is 'supposedly from Tananthayi district, Tananthayi River basin, obtained dead from aquarium fish vendor at Meik'.

Although S. jardinii superficially resembles its Asian cousins, it is not considered as desirable an aquarium inhabitant, nor is it classed as being at risk in nature. It can be easily distinguished from the asian species by its much smaller scale size, greater lateral scale count (32-35 as opposed to 21-25 in the asian aros) and duller patterning. It differs from its Australian relative S. leichardtii by its more sloping head, downward-pointing barbels and patterned gill covers. The base colour...

Although S. leichardtii superficially resembles its Asian cousins, it is not considered as desirable an aquarium inhabitant, nor is it classed as being at risk in nature. It can be easily distinguished from the asian species by its much smaller scale size, greater lateral scale count (32-35 as opposed to 21-25 in the asian aros) and duller patterning. It differs from its Australian relative S. jardinii by its spotted scales, forward-pointing barbels, lack of sloping head and unpatterned gill cov...

Fish sold under the name S. zonata are sporadically available in the aquarium trade but the majority appear to be the congener S. octozona. The genus currently contains just three members all of which are known only from the Mekong basin. S. octozona is the type species and separ...