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Scientific Name: Schistura scaturigina McClelland, 1839

Synonym: Nemacheilus scaturigina (Currently unaccepted)

English Name: Victory loach
Local/Bangla Name: Dari puiya (দারি পুইয়া)
Bonyfish : Schistura scaturigina

Photo: zierfische

Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Teleostei
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Description:
It has triangular mouth. Body is cylidrical, round shape. Tapering tail is present. Body encircled by oblique brown bands (a few incomplete ones). Separated by greysish to yellowish ones of much shorter (nearly one fourth) width. It has relatively large eye.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Occur in rivers of Sylhet, Chittagong, Rangpur and Dinajpur.
Environment:
Freshwater (Benthopelagic)
Main References:

Rahman AKA 2005 Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh, 2nd ed., Zool. Soc. Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, xviii + 394 pp.

Other References:

Siddiqui KU, Islam MA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA 2005 Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh, 2nd ed., Zool. Soc. Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, xviii + 394 pp. AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondker M, Rahman AKA 2005 Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh, 2nd ed., Zool. Soc. Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, xviii + 394 pp. MM (eds.) 2007 Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 23. Freshwater Fishes. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka 300 pp.

DoF Bangladesh (2023) Album: Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh, Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, Bangladesh, Dhaka. 200 pp.

Giri SS ed, 2017 Monographs on Threatened Freshwater Fishes of South Asia. SAARC Agriculture Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 305 p.

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