Schistura horai

Schistura horai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Nemacheilidae
Genus:	Schistura
Species:	S. horai
Binomial name
	Schistura horai; (Menon, 1952)
Synonyms
	Nemacheilus horaiMenon, 1952

Last updated October 20, 2025

Schistura horai is a species of ray-finned fish in the stone loach genus Schistura . It is found in India and Pakistan. It is named in honour of the ichthyologist Sunder Lal Hora (1896-1955), who was the Director of the Zoological Survey of India and who collected the type specimen in 1926 in Himachal Pradesh.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Schistura horai". FishBase . October 2017 version.
↑ Kottelat, M. (2012). "Conspectus cobitidum: An inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. No. 26: 1–199.
↑ "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (Stone Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 2017. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2018.

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[FB-1] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Schistura horai". FishBase . October 2017 version.

[Kottelat2012a-2] Kottelat, M. (2012). "Conspectus cobitidum: An inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. No. 26: 1–199.

[ETYFish-3] "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (Stone Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 2017. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2018.

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