| Nemacheilidae (Brook loaches) |
| 4.87 cm SL (male/unsexed) |
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demersal; freshwater |
| Asia: known with certainty only from the Krem Synrang Pamiang system in Meghalaya, India. |
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Can be differentiated from all its congeners in having the lower half of the head covered by numerous small skin projections and 5 pores in the supratemporal canal of the cephalic lateral-line system. Additional distinguishing characters include white body, vestigial eyes, incomplete lateral line (reaching only to vertical above pelvic-fin origin) and absence of axillary pelvic bone (Ref. 57820). |
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Critically Endangered (CR); Date assessed: 21 January 2010 (B1ab(iii)+2ab(iii)) Ref. (130435)
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| harmless |
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