Exostoma sawmteai is a species of sisorid catfish in the family Sisoridae. It is found in the Pharsih River, which is a tributary of the Tuivai River in the Barak River drainage in Mizoram, north-eastern India.[1]

Exostoma sawmteai
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Sisoridae
Genus: Exostoma
Species:
E. sawmteai
Binomial name
Exostoma sawmteai

Description

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Exostoma sawmteai reaches a standard length of 8.5 cm (3.3 in).[2]

Etymology

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The fish is named for Sawmtea Vanalalmalsawma, who as a field assistant helped collect specimens for Lalramliana.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Lalramliana, Lalronunga, S., Lalnuntluanga & Ng, H.H. (2015): [Exostoma sawmteai, a new sisorid catfish from northeast India (Teleostei: Sisoridae)https://pfeil-verlag.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ief26_1_03.pdf]. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 26 (1): 59-64.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Exostoma sawmteai". FishBase. February 2015 version.
  3. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families AKYSIDAE, AMBLYCIPITIDAE, SISORIDAE and AMPHILIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 16 April 2022.