Familia: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Paracobitis
Species: Paracobitis rhadinae

Name

Paracobitis rhadinae (Regan, 1906)

• Syntypes: BMNH 1905.11.29.28-29 (2); ZSI F1240/1 (1).

Type locality: Helmand River basin, Seistan, Afghanistan.

Etymology: latinization of the Greek rhadinos (= slender or lithe), presumably referring to elongate body. (From The ETYFish Project)

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References

• Freyhof, J., Esmaeili, H. R., Sayyadzadeh, G. & Geiger, M., 2014: Review of the crested loaches of the genus Paracobitis from Iran and Iraq with the description of four new species (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25 (1): 11–38. Abstract

• Regan, C.T. 1906. Two new cyprinoid fishes from the Helmand Basin. Journal & Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (New Series) 2 (1) (art. 2): 8–9. BHL Reference page.