''Afronemacheilus abyssinicus'' is a

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of stone loach

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Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

. It is known from the

Blue Nile The Blue Nile (; ) is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. It travels for approximately through Ethiopia and Sudan. Along with the White Nile, it is one of the two major tributaries of the Nile and supplies about 85.6% of the water to ...

at its outlet from Tana Lake (the type locality), with records from the Baro River. Originally the only species in its genus, in 2013 '' A. kaffa'' was described based on the Omo population, formerly included in ''A. abyssinicus''. ''A. abyssinicus'' can reach a standard length of . The specific epithet, ''abyssinicus'', is derived from

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and means "Abyssinian" or "Ethiopian".

References

Nemacheilidae Fish of Lake Tana Endemic fauna of Ethiopia Fish described in 1902 Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Nemacheilidae-stub