Physoschistura is a genus of fish in the family Nemacheilidae found mostly in Southeast Asia.[1]

Physoschistura
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Physoschistura
Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1982
Type species
Nemachilus brunneanus
Annandale, 1918

Species

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There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus:[2]

References

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  1. ^ Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived 2016-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Physoschistura". FishBase. February 2024 version.
  3. ^ Lokeshwor, Y. & Vishwanath, W. (2012): Physoschistura chindwinensis, a new balitorid loach from Chindwin basin, Manipur, India (Teleostei: Balitoridae). Ichthyological Research, 59 (3): 230-234.
  4. ^ Suvarnaraksha, A. (2013): A new species of Physoschistura (Pisces: Nemacheilidae) from northern Thailand. Zootaxa, 3736 (3): 236–248.
  5. ^ Lokeshwor, Y. & Vishwanath, W. (2012): Physoschistura dikrongensis, a new loach from Arunachal Pradesh, India (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 3586: 249–254.
  6. ^ Kevin W. Conway and Maurice Kottelat. 2023. Physoschistura mango, A New miniature Species of Loach from Myanmar (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY. 71; 681–701
  7. ^ Lokeshwor, Y. & Vishwanath, W. (2012): A new loach of the genus Physoschistura Bănărescu & Nalbant (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Chindwin basin, Manipur, India. Zootaxa, 3586: 95–102.
  8. ^ Lokeshwor, Y., Vishwanath, W. & Shanta, K. (2012): Physoschistura tuivaiensis, a new species of loach (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from the Tuivai River, Manipur, India. Taprobanica, 4 (1): 5-11.