Schistura melarancia is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach, in the genus Schistura. It is found in the Mekong drainage in Laos and Vietnam.[1] The specific name melarancia is derived from an old Italian word for an orange and refers to the orange-brown colour of the fins and body of this species.[2]
Schistura melarancia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Nemacheilidae |
Genus: | Schistura |
Species: | S. melarancia
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Binomial name | |
Schistura melarancia |
References
edit- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Schistura melarancia". FishBase. October 2017 version.
- ^ "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (Stone Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.