Schistura melarancia
Schistura melarancia is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach, in the genus Schistura. It is found in the Mekong drainage in Laos and Vietnam.[1] The specific name melarancia is derived from an old Italian word for an orange and refers to the orange-brown colour of the fins and body of this species.[2]
| Schistura melarancia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Schistura |
| Species: | S. melarancia |
| Binomial name | |
| Schistura melarancia | |
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). "Schistura melarancia" in FishBase. October 2017 version.
- "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (Stone Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
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