Mesonoemacheilus petrubanarescui

Mesonoemacheilus petrubanarescui is a species of ray-finned fish from India.[2][3] The specific name petrubanaescui honours the Romanian ichthyologist Petre Mihai Bănărescu.[4] It grows to 3.5 cm (1.4 in) standard length.[5] It is endemic to the Western Ghats and is known from only two locations, the Netravati River and Kabani River in Karnataka and Kerala. It is a little known species which is rare and may be threatened by habitat alteration, sand mining and pollution. It turns up occasionally in the aquarium trade where it is sold as the "dwarf loach".[1]

Mesonoemacheilus petrubanarescui
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Mesonoemacheilus
Species:
M. petrubanarescui
Binomial name
Mesonoemacheilus petrubanarescui
(Menon, 1984)
Synonyms

Nemacheilus petrubanarescui Menon, 1984

References
  1. Raghavan, R. (2011). "Nemacheilus petrubanarescui". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T169672A6665952. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T169672A6665952.en. Downloaded on 29 December 2017.
  2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Mesonoemacheilus petrubanarescui". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  3. Kottelat, M. (2012). "Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 26: 1–199.
  4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (9 January 2021). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (a-p)". The ETYFish Project. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  5. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Nemacheilus petrubanarescui" in FishBase. December 2019 version.


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