Malihkaia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Nemacheilidae |
Genus: | Malihkaia Kottelat, 2017 |
Species: | M. aligera |
Binomial name | |
Malihkaia aligera Kottelat, 2017 |
Malihkaia is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Nemacheilidae, the stone loaches. The only species in the genus is Malihkaia aligera. This species was foirsy formalled described in 2017 by the Swiss ichthyologist Maurice Kottelat with its type locality given as the Mali Hka River, about 9 km upstream of Kang Mu Lon on the Kachin State of Myanmar at 27°25'54"N, 97°27'56"E from an elevation of 402 m (1,319 ft).
References
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Nemacheilidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Malihkaia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
- Maurice Kottelat (2017). "A new genus and three new species of nemacheilid loaches from northern Irrawaddy drainage, Myanmar (Teleostei: Cypriniformes)". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 65: 80–99.
Taxon identifiers | |
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Malihkaia | |
Malihkaia aligera |