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Mustura subhashi Choudhury, Das, Bharali, Sarma, Tyagi, Lal & Sarma, 2021 |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae (Brook loaches) | |||
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| Environment: | demersal; freshwater | |||
| Distribution: | Asia: India. | |||
| Diagnosis: | This species is distinguished from all its congeners by the following characters: Colouration: body greyish to pale beige with 14-23 dark-greyish black to dark brown irregular bars; pre-dorsal bars are thin, numerous, wider than interspaces, weakly contrasted, uniting dorsally at lateral one-third or midway on flank to form thicker bars, coalescing further at lateral one-fifth and continuous on dorsum with contralateral bars; bars below the dorsal fin having similar condition but slightly wider than pre-dorsal bars; post-dorsal bars are thicker than anterior bars, wider than interspaces, sharply contrasted, and rarely coalescing on flank; caudal mid-line with a short bar along it, rarely forming a blotch (Ref. 123900). | |||
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| IUCN Red List Status: | Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. (130435) | |||
| Threat to humans: | harmless | |||