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Chirruh snowtrout

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Species of fish

Chirruh snowtrout
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Schizothorax
Species: S. esocinus
Binomial name
Schizothorax esocinus
(Heckel, 1838)
Synonyms
  • Racoma esocina (Heckel, 1838)
  • Schizopyge esocinus (Heckel, 1838)
  • Schizothoraichthys esocinus (Heckel, 1838)
  • Schizothorax barbatus McClelland & Griffith, 1842
  • Racoma nobilis McClelland, 1842
  • Schizothorax nobilis (McClelland, 1842)
  • Schizothorax punctatus Day, 1877
  • Schizothorax montanus Zugmayer, 1909

The Chirruh snowtrout (Schizothorax esocinus) is a species of cyprinid fish found in the Himalyays in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Nepal and China.

Biology

Found mostly in mountain streams, rivers and gravel-bottomed rivers. They feed on bottom detritus and they migrate to spawn in tributary streams where breeding occurs in gravel and sandy beds.

References

  1. "Synonyms of Schizothorax esocinus Heckel, 1838". Fishbase. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  2. http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?ID=24430&AT=Chirruh+Snowtrout
Taxon identifiers
Schizothorax esocinus


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