Mesonoemacheilus petrubanarescui
| Mesonoemacheilus petrubanarescui | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Mesonoemacheilus |
| Species: | M. petrubanarescui
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| Binomial name | |
| Mesonoemacheilus petrubanarescui (Menon, 1984)
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| Synonyms | |
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Nemacheilus petrubanarescui Menon, 1984 | |
Mesonoemacheilus petrubanarescui is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Mesonoemacheilus.[2] The specific name petrubanaescui honours the Romanian ichthyologist Petre Mihai Bănărescu.[3] It is endemic to the Western Ghats and is known from only two locations, the Netravati River and Kabani River in Karnataka and Kerala. It is a little known species which is rare and may be threatened by habitat alteration, sand mining and pollution. It turns up occasionally in the aquarium trade where it is sold as the "dwarf loach".[1]
Footnotes
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Nemacheilus petrubanarescui" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
- ^ a b Raghavan, R. (2011). "Nemacheilus petrubanarescui". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T169672A6665952. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T169672A6665952.en. Downloaded on 29 December 2017.
- ^ Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived 2013-02-11 at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
- ^ "Order CYPRINIFORMES (part 13): Nemacheilidae · The ETYFish Project" (PDF). The ETYFish Project. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 2017-12-07. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
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