Schistura is a genus of fish in the stone loach family Nemacheilidae native to the streams and rivers of the southern and eastern Asia. Some of these species are troglobitic.[1][2]

Schistura
Schistura mahnerti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Schistura
McClelland, 1838
Type species
Cobitis rupecula
McClelland, 1838
Synonyms
  • Acoura Swainson, 1839
  • Longischistura Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1995

Species

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There are currently over 200 recognized species in this genus:[1]

Mukhim, Sarma, Choudhury, Chandran, Das, Singh, Warbah, Sarkar & Sarma, 2024

See also

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  • Sgouros, Katherine; Lawrence M. Page; Sarah A. Orlofske; and Robert C. Jadin (2019). A Revised Molecular Phylogeny Reveals Polyphyly in Schistura (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4559(2): 349–362. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4559.2.8

References

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  1. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Schistura". FishBase. June 2017 version.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Lalramliana (2012): Schistura aizawlensis, a new species of loach from Mizoram, northeastern India (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 23 (2): 97-104.
  4. ^ Chen, X.-Y. & Neely, D.A. (2012): Schistura albirostris, a new nemacheiline loach (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from the Irrawaddy River drainage of Yunnan Province, China. Zootaxa, 3586: 222–227.
  5. ^ a b c Maurice Kottelat (2017). "Three new species of loaches of the genus Schistura from the Nam Ngiep drainage, central Laos (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 65: 691–706.
  6. ^ Solo, B., Lalramliana, Lalronunga, S. & Lalnuntluanga (2014): Schistura andrewi, a new species of loach (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Mizoram, northeastern India. Zootaxa, 3860 (3): 253–260.
  7. ^ Plongsesthee, R., Page, L.M. & Beamish, W. (2011): Schistura aurantiaca, a new species from the Mae Khlong basin, Thailand (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 22 (2): 169–178.
  8. ^ Bohlen, J. & Šlechtová, V. (2011): A new genus and two new species of loaches (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Myanmar. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 22 (1): 1–10.
  9. ^ a b Kottelat, M. (2017): Schistura colossa and S. klydonion, two new species of loaches from Bolaven Plateau, southern Laos (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 65: 341–356.
  10. ^ Plongsesthee, R., Kottelat, M. & Beamish, F.W.H. (2013): Schistura crocotula, a new loach from Peninsular Thailand (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (2): 171–178.
  11. ^ Ou, C., Montaña, C.G., Winemiller, K.O. & Conway, K.W. (2011): Schistura diminuta, a new miniature loach from the Mekong River drainage of Cambodia (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 22 (3): 193–200.
  12. ^ Kottelat, M. (2017): Schistura epixenos, a new species of loach from the Nakai Plateau, Laos (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 4300 (1): 44-54.
  13. ^ Lokeshwor, Y. & Vishwanath, W. (2011): Schistura fasciata, a new nemacheiline species (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) from Manipur, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 3 (2): 1514-1519.
  14. ^ Lokeshwor, Y. & Vishwanath, W. (2013): Schistura ferruginea, a new species of loach from Northeast India (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (1): 49–56.
  15. ^ Endruweit, M. (2017): A new Schistura from the Salween basin in western Yunnan (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 4243 (2): 394-400.
  16. ^ Jayasimhan Praveenraj, Tejas Thackeray and Shankar Balasubramanian. 2020. Schistura hiranyakeshi A New Loach (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae) from Maharashtra, Northern Western Ghats, India. aqua - Int. Journal Ichthyol. 26(2)
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  18. ^ Bohlen, J., Šlechtová, V. & Udomritthiruj, K. (2014): Schistura hypsiura, a new species of loach (Cobitoidea: Nemacheilidae) from South-West Myanmar. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 62: 21-27.
  19. ^ Kottelat, M. (2017): Schistura indawgyiana, a new loach from Lake Indawgyi basin, Myanmar (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 28 (1): 1-8.
  20. ^ Bohlen, J., Petrtýl, M., Chaloupková, P. & Borin, C. (2016): Schistura kampucheensis, a new species of loach from Cambodia (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 26 (4): 353-362.
  21. ^ Lokeshwor, Y. & Vishwanath, W. (2012): Schistura koladynensis, a new species of loach from the Koladyne basin, Mizoram, India (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 23 (2): 139–145.
  22. ^ Lokeshwor, Y. & Vishwanath, W. (2014): Schistura liyaiensis, a new loach from Barak River, Manipur, India (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Research, 62 (3): 313–319.
  23. ^ Lalronunga, S., Lalnuntluanga & Lalramliana (2013): Schistura maculosa, a new species of loach (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Mizoram, northeastern India. Zootaxa, 3718 (6): 583–590.
  24. ^ a b Sudasinghe, H. (2017): Schistura madhavai, a new species of hill-stream loach from Sri Lanka, with redescription of S. notostigma (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 4311 (1): 96-110.
  25. ^ Suvarnaraksha, A. (2012): Schistura maejotigrina, a new stream loach (Pisces: Nemacheilidae) from northern Thailand. Zootaxa, 3586: 131–137.
  26. ^ Endruweit, M. (2014): Schistura megalodon species nova, a new river loach from the Irrawaddy basin in Dehong, Yunnan, China (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). Zoological Research, 35 (5): 353−361.
  27. ^ Lalramliana, Lalronunga, S., Vanramliana & Lalthanzara, H. (2014): Schistura mizoramensis, a new species of loach from Mizoram, northeastern India (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25 (3): 205-212.
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  30. ^ Endruweit, M., Yang, J. & Liu, S. (2016): A new river loach from the main channel of the upper Mekong in Yunnan (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 4168 (3): 594-600.
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  32. ^ Lokeshwor, Y., Barat, A., Sati, J., Darshan, A., Vishwanath, W. & Mahanta, P.C. (2012): Schistura obliquofascia, a new loach from Uttarakhand, India (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 3586: 255–263.
  33. ^ Page, L.M., Plongsesthee, R., Beamish, F.W.H., Kangrang, P., Randall, Z.S., Singer, R.A. & Martin, Z.P. (2012): Schistura (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) in the Mae Khlong basin in southwestern Thailand with description of a new species. Zootaxa, 3586: 319–328.
  34. ^ Endruweit, M. (2017): A new Schistura from the Pearl River in Guangxi, China (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 4277 (1): 144-150.
  35. ^ Lokeshwor, Y., Vishwanath, W. & Kosygin, L. (2013): Schistura paucireticulata, a new loach from Tuirial River, Mizoram, India (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 3683 (5): 581–588.
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  37. ^ Shangningam, B., Lokeshwor, Y. & Vishwanath, W. (2014): Schistura phamhringi, a new stone loach from Chindwin Basin in Manipur, India (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 3786 (2): 181–191.
  38. ^ Lokeshwor, Y. & Vishwanath, W. (2013): Schistura porocephala, a new nemacheilid loach from Koladyne basin, Mizoram, India (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Research, 60 (2): 159–164.
  39. ^ Zheng, L.-P., Yang, J.-X. & Chen, X.-Y. (2012): Schistura prolixifasciata, a new species of loach (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from the Salween basin in Yunnan, China. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 23 (1): 63–67.
  40. ^ Bohlen, J. & Šlechtová, V. (2013): Schistura puncticeps, a new species of loach from Myanmar (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (1): 85–92.
  41. ^ Endruweit, M. (2014): Schistura sexnubes, a new diminutive river loach from the upper Mekong basin, Yunnan Province, China (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). Zoological Research, 35 (1): 59–66.
  42. ^ Bohlen, J. & Šlechtová, V. (2014): Schistura shuensis, a new species of loach from Myanmar (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (3): 217-223.
  43. ^ Suvarnaraksha, A. (2015): A new species of highland loach, Schistura sirindhornae, from the upper Chao Phraya River basin, Thailand (Pisces: Ostariophysi: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 3962 (1): 158–170.
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  45. ^ Kottelat, M. (2017): Schistura systomos, a new species of loach from southern Laos (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 28 (1): 9-16.
  46. ^ Kangrang, P., Page, L.M. & Beamish, F.W.H. (2012): Schistura tenebrosa, a new species of loach from the Kwai Noi River system, Mae Khlong basin, Thailand (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 3586: 69–77.
  47. ^ Kottelat, M. (2017): Schistura thavonei, a new species of loach from northwestern Laos (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 65: 395–403.
  48. ^ Kottelat, M. (2017): Schistura titan, a new species of loach from Dakchung Plateau, southern Laos (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 28 (1): 65-83.
  49. ^ Bohlen, J. & Šlechtová, V. (2010): Schistura udomritthiruji, a new loach from southern Thailand (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 20 (4): 319-324.
  50. ^ Chen, X.-Y., Kottelat, M. & Neely, D.A. (2011): Physoschistura yunnaniloides, a new species of loach from Myanmar (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 22 (2): 179-183.