Psilorhynchus sucatio

Psilorhynchus sucatio, the river stone carp or sucatio minnow, is freshwater ray-finned fish a species of torrent minnow. The specific name is a latinization of one of the local names for this species, sukati.[3] It is a widely distributed species and is found in Nepal and Bangladesh as well as the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. P. sucatio occurs in water with a fast current preferring the edges of sandy streams. In the lowlands it is abundant near emergent or overhanging vegetation, it is an altitudinal migrant. At a maximum length of 5 cm it is too small to be of any interest to fisheries but it is collected for the aquarium trade.[1] It is the type species of the genus Psilorhynchus.[4]

Psilorhynchus sucatio
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Psilorhynchidae
Genus: Psilorhynchus
Species:
P. sucatio
Binomial name
Psilorhynchus sucatio
(Hamilton, 1822)[2]
Synonyms

Cyprinus sucatio Hamilton, 1822

References
  1. Dahanukar, N. (2010). "Psilorhynchus sucatio". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T168524A6507956. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T168524A6507956.en. Downloaded on 28 January 2018.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). "Psilorhynchus sucatio" in FishBase. October 2017 version.
  3. "CYPRINIFORMES (part 10)" (PDF). The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  4. William Eschmeyer, ed. (2017). "Genera that contain: Psilorhynchus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 January 2018.


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