Schistura multifasciata

Schistura multifasciata is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach in the genus Schistura. It is found in the eastern Himalayas, from the Teesta River, through the base of the Nepal Himalaya, as far as the Ghaghara and Sharda River drainages, where it lives on the gravel bottoms of fast flowing hill streams.[1]

Schistura multifasciata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Schistura
Species:
S. multifasciata
Binomial name
Schistura multifasciata
(Day, 1878)[2]
Synonyms
  • Nemacheilus multifasciatus Day, 1878
  • Noemacheilus multifasciatus (Day, 1878)

References
  1. Vishwanath, W. (2010). "Schistura multifasciata". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T168246A6468659. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T168246A6468659.en. Downloaded on 20 January 2018.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). "Schistura multifasciata" in FishBase. October 2017 version.


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