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No image available for this species; drawing shows typical species in Cobitidae.
分類 / Names 俗名 | 同種異名 | Catalog of Fishes(屬, 種) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa
Teleostei > Cypriniformes (Carps) 鯉形目 (Carps) > Cobitidae (Spined loaches) 鰍科 (Spined loaches)
Etymology: pathala:Name based on the Sanskrit word pâtâla, which means ‘below the feet’, referring to the
subterranean realms of the universe—which are located under the earth’s surface; noun in apposition.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / 深度上下限 / distribution range 生態學
脊椎骨: 67. This species is distinguished from all its congeners (except P. bhujia) by the followng characters: dorsal fin absent (vs. present); pectoral-fin rays, 4 including an unbranched rudimentary ray (vs. 5-11); caudal-fin rays segmented, 13 with both branched and unbranched (vs. 14-16)l caudal vertebrae 27 (vs. 11-20), the highest among the known members of the genus; differs from its only subterranean congener, P. bhujia, with pectoral-fin rays 4 (vs. 3); anal-fin rays 5 (vs. 6); vertebrae 67 (vs. 62-63); and a raw genetic distance of 8.1–8.7% in the mitochondrial co1 gene (Ref. 132416). Cross section: oval.
The specimens were collected from an overhead water-storage tank connected to an old dug-out well using an electric water pump; in which the well is approximately 17 feet deep, and
drawn water was used for drinking and household activities (Ref. 132416).
Life cycle and mating behavior 成熟度 | 繁殖 | 產卵場 | 卵 | 孕卵數 | 仔魚
Sundar, R. L., C. P. Arjun, A. Sidharthan, N. Dahanukar and R. Raghavan, 2022. A new diminutive subterranean eel loach species of the genus Pangio (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from Southern India. Zootaxa 5138(1):89-97. (Ref. 132416)
