Schistura paucireticulata, new species, is described from the Tuirial River in Mizoram, India. It is distinguished from its congeners by a combination of characters: 8-9 brown bars on the body, bars in front of the dorsal fin divided into 2-3 small bars forming a reticulations; basicaudal bar black, dissociated; dorsal fin spotted, with 4 simple and 8 1/2 branched rays; anal fin with 3 simple a...

Bangladesh is a country of 1,47,570 km2 of mostly flat topography, but about 12 percent is hilly. The hilly areas are confined to the northeast and the southeastern parts of the country bordering India and Myanmar. Hill streams are highly variable and very important for the study and understanding of the aquatic biodiversity of Bangladesh. Hillstream ecosystems include a variety of habitats inc...

A new nemacheilid loach, Schistura obliquofascia, is described from Kalsa, a stream near Chanfi, tributary of Gola River, Ganga basin in Uttarakhand, India. The new species is readily distinguished from congeners by the following combination of characters: 12–14 oblique olivaceous dark bars on the body and three rows of black spots on the dorsal fin; lateral line complete with 104–112 pores, do...

after around a hundred years of being without any record of occurrence of paracobitis rhadinaea, a species of nemacheiline loach, in sistan basin, southeast of iran, the year 2012 was the turning point of wild life in this area. twenty-five specimens were caught from chahnimeh reservoir, a water body adjacent to the hamoun wetland in sistan basin. morphometric and meristic characteristics were ...

the length-weight relationships, (lwrs) were calculated for 14 fish species belonging to five families (cyprinidae, cobitidae, nemacheilidae, salmonidae, and gobiidae) collected from the tajan river, north of iran. significant length-weight relationships with high correlation coefficients were found for all species.

The fish diversity of Chimmony Wildlife Sanctuary in the Western Ghats Kerala was studied between January 2018 and December 2020. ichthyofauna comprised 40 species belonging to 11 Orders, 17 Families, 29 genera, which 35% are endemic region, two state Kerala. Cyprinids were most dominant family, represented by 19 three followed family Channidae (3 species) loaches Nemacheilidae species). Of spe...