Aborichthys waikhomi
Aborichthys waikhomi is a species of stone loach found in the Noa-Dihing River, upper Brahmaputra basin in the Namdapha National Park and Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh, India. This fish grows to a length of 6.8 centimetres (2.7 in) SL.[1][2]
| Aborichthys waikhomi | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Aborichthys |
| Species: | A. waikhomi |
| Binomial name | |
| Aborichthys waikhomi Kosygin, 2012 | |
The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Waikhom Vishwanath (b. 1954) of Manipur University, in thanks for his encouragement of the author’s work on this species.[3]
References
- Kosygin, L. (2012): Aborichthys waikhomi, a new species of fish (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Records of the zoological survey of India, 112 (1): 49-55.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Aborichthys waikhomi" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (a-p)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
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