Paracanthocobitis zonalternans

Taxonavigation: Cobitoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cobitoidei

Familia: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Paracanthocobitis
Species: Paracanthocobitis zonalternans

Name

Paracanthocobitis zonalternans (Blyth, 1860)

Neotype: ZSM 27468 [ex ZRC 38458, ex CMK 4915].

Type locality: Thailand, Tak Province, Salween basin, Huai Mae Charno, 4 kilometers south of Amphoe Mae Ramat on road 1085, 16°58'N, 98°34'E.

Etymology: zonatus (= banded); alterno (= variegated with two alternate colors), referring to 12 short transverse bands along lateral streak which alternate with ≈12 dark bands across dorsum.

Synonyms

• Cobitis zonalternans Blyth, 1860
  • Nemacheilus zonalternans (Blyth, 1860) -- Menon, 1987
  • Noemacheilus zonalternans (Blyth, 1860) -- Ataur Rahman, 1989
  • Nemachilus zonalternans (Blyth, 1860) -- Talwar & Jhingran, 1991
  • Acanthocobitis zonalternans (Blyth, 1860) -- Kottelat, 1989
  • Acanthocobitis (Paracanthocobitis) zonalternans (Blyth, 1860) -- Grant, 2007
• Noemacheilus phuketensis Klausewitz, 1957
  • Nemacheilus phuketensis Klausewitz, 1957

References

• Blyth, E. 1860. Report on some fishes received chiefly from the Sitang River and its tributary streams, Tenasserim Provinces. Journal of the asiatic Society of Bengal 29(2): 138–174. (PDF)Reference page. 
• Klausewitz, W. 1957. Neue Süßwasserfische aus Thailand. Senckenbergiana Biologica 38 (3/4): 193–204, Pls. 17, 17a, 18.
• Kottelat, M. 1990. Indochinese nemacheilines. A revision of nemacheiline loaches (Pisces: Cypriniformes) of Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia and southern Viet Nam. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. 1–262. ISBN 978-3-923871-47-6 Reference page. 
• Kottelat, M. 2012. Acanthocobitis pictilis, a new species of loach from Myanmar and Thailand (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 3327: 45–52. Preview Reference page. 
• Singer, R. & Page, L.M. 2015. Revision of the zipper loaches, Acanthocobitis and Paracanthocobitis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae), with descriptions of five new species. Copeia 103(2): 378–401. DOI: 10.1643/CI-13-128 Reference page. 

Links

• Scharpf, C. & Lazara, K.J. 2018. Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (Stone Loaches). Fish Name Etymology Database, The ETYFish Project.