Tibetan stone loach

The Tibetan stone loach (Triplophysa stolickai) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Nemacheilidae. The specific name is sometimes spelled stoliczkae but the original spelling used by Steindachner is stoličkai.[2] It is found in southern and central Asia.[3]

Tibetan stone loach
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Cypriniformes
Family:
Nemacheilidae
Genus:
Triplophysa
Species:
T. stolickai
Binomial name
Triplophysa stolickai
Synonyms
  • Cobitis elegans Kessler, 1874
  • Cobitis stoličkai protonym
  • Nemacheilus stoliczkae
  • Triplophysa stoliczkai

Etymology

The stone loach is named in honor of paleontologist Ferdinand Stoliczka (1838-1874). Stoliczka was the one who collected the type specimen. [4]

References
  1. "Zur fischfauna Kaschmirs und der benachbarten Landerstriche in Wien". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft. 16: 784–796. 1866.
  2. Wu, Y.-Y., Sun, Z.-Y. & Guo, Y.-S. (2016): A new species of the genus Triplophysa (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae), Triplophysa daochengensis, from Sichuan Province, China. Zoological Research, 37 (5): 290-296.
  3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2016). "Triplophysa stoliczkai" in FishBase. June 2016 version.
  4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (r-y)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 14 April 2022.


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