Schistura rupecula

Schistura rupecula is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach, in the genus Schistura. It is distributed through the eastern Himalayas from North Bengal through Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh in India and into Nepal. Its habitat is hill streams with pebbly stream beds while adults are often found in shallow water riffles and spring pools.[2] The specific name rupecula means "rock dweller" which was given to the species by its describer John McClelland in reference to the hill streams around Simla from where the type specimens were collected.[3] It is the type species of the genus Schistura.[4]

Schistura rupecula
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Nemacheilidae
Genus:	Schistura
Species:	S. rupecula
Binomial name
Schistura rupecula McClelland, 1838[2]
Synonyms
Nemacheilus rupecula (McClelland, 1838)

References

1. Vishwanath, W. (2010). "Schistura rupecula". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T166463A6214561. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T166463A6214561.en. Downloaded on 21 January 2018.
2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). "Schistura rupecula" in FishBase. October 2017 version.
3. "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (Stone Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
4. Kottelat, M. (2012). "Conspectus_cobitidum.pdf Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement No. 26: 1–199.