''Schistura papulifera'' is a critically endangered species of
ray-finned fish, a
troblobitic 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 ...
, in 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 ...
'' endemic to the state of
Meghalaya in
India. It is currently known to be restricted to the
Krem Synrang Pamiang cave system near the
Jaintia Hills, where it is threatened by limestone extraction. This species lives in pools of standing water within the cave system preferring these to the streams of flowing water, being most numerous in the largest and deepest pools. This may be because the larger pools offer a more stable environment for the fish.
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
is a compound of the
Latin ''papula'' meaning "a small tumour" and ''fera'' meaning "to bear", referring to the growths around the lower half this species head.
References
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Fish described in 2007
Cave fish
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