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Issue: Vol. 4173 No. 2: 4 Oct. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-10-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4173.2.10
Page range: 192–200
Abstract views: 69
PDF downloaded: 3

Physoschistura chhimtuipuiensis, a new species of loach (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Mizoram, north-eastern India

Department of Zoology, Pachhunga University College, Aizawl-Mizoram, India, 796 001.
Department of Zoology, Pachhunga University College, Aizawl-Mizoram, India, 796 001.
Department of Zoology, Government Serchhip College, Serchhip-Mizoram, India, 796 181
Department of Zoology, Pachhunga University College, Aizawl-Mizoram, India, 796 001.
Pisces Diversity endemism ichthyofauna Indo-Myanmar Ngengpui River

Abstract

Physoschistura chhimtuipuiensis, new species, from a tributary of the Kaladan River in Mizoram, northeastern India, is distinguished from all other species of Physoschistura by a combination of the following characters: scales between pectoral- and pelvic-fin bases deeply embedded and sparsely set, lateral line incomplete with 56–63 pores, reaching slightly beyond the base of the last anal-fin ray, a suborbital flap in male, 8½ branched dorsal-fin rays and 8+7 branched caudal-fin rays.

 

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