Schistura quasimodo

Schistura quasimodo
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Nemacheilidae
Genus:	Schistura
Species:	S. quasimodo
Binomial name
Schistura quasimodo Kottelat, 2000 [2]

Schistura quasimodo is a species of stone loach (a ray-finned fish) in the genus Schistura . It is known from a single stream from the Nam Ngum drainage in Laos, a tributary of the Mekong. ^[1] It has a cylindrical body, sometimes with a conspicuous hump (the species epithet refers to Quasimodo, character in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). The known material suggests a maximum standard length of about 48 mm (1.9 in). ^[2]

S. quasimodo has a very restricted distribution and may be threatened by pollution from mining activities, sedimentation from deforestation, and hydro-power development. ^[1]

References

1. Kottelat, M. (2012). "Schistura quasimodo". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2012 e.T180931A1679325. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T180931A1679325.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
2. Kottelat, M. (2000). "Diagnoses of a new genus and 64 new species of fishes from Laos (Teleostei: Cyprinidae, Balitoridae, Bagridae, Syngnathidae, Chaudhuriidae and Tetraodontidae)" (PDF). Journal of South Asian Natural History. 5: 37–82. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-02.

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Schistura quasimodo". FishBase .