''Schistura dayi'' is a species of
stone loach
The stone loach (''Barbatula barbatula'') is a European species of fresh water ray-finned fish in the family Nemacheilidae. It is one of nineteen species in the genus ''Barbatula''. Stone loaches live amongst the gravel and stones of fast flowin ...
from the genus ''
Schistura
''Schistura'' is a genus of fish in the stone loach family Nemacheilidae native to the streams and rivers of the southern and eastern Asia. Some of these species are troglobitic
A troglobite (or, formally, troglobiont) is an animal species, or ...
''. It is found in small, shallow, fast flowing streams which have sandy or pebbly beds in the Indian states of
Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prade ...
,
Jharkhand,
Madhya Pradesh and
Orissa.
References
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Fish described in 1935
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