Schistura horai explained

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.[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. . 2012 . Conspectus cobitidum: An inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . Suppl. No. 26 . 1–199.
  2. Web site: Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (Stone Loaches) . 14 January 2018 . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . 2017.

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