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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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Siluriformes |
Family: | Sisoridae |
Genus: | Exostoma |
Species: | E. sawmteai
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Binomial name | |
Exostoma sawmteai |
Description
editExostoma sawmteai reaches a standard length of 8.5 cm (3.3 in).[2]
Etymology
editThe fish is named for Sawmtea Vanalalmalsawma, who as a field assistant helped collect specimens for Lalramliana.[3]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Exostoma sawmteai". FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ 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.