Conspectus cobitidum - Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research

ity: Pakistan: Hindubagh, Zhob River drainage; holotype:
ISBB 2005; adjective, -us, -a, -um)
10.28.11 Paraschistura prashari (Hora, 1933)
Nemachilus prashari Hora, 1933: 189, pl. 5 figs. 1–2 (type
locality: Pakistan: Northwest Frontier Province [Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa Prov.]: spring 300 yards north of Kohat
City; holotype: ZSI F 10719/1; noun in genitive, indeclinable)
10.28.12 Paraschistura punjabensis (Hora, 1923)
Nemachilus punjabensis Hora, 1923: 384, figs. 2–3 (type
locality: Pakistan: Punjab Province: Jhelum District: Pind
Dadan Khan Tehsil [district; Pind Dadan Khan town:
32°35'11"N 73°02'42"E]; syntypes: ZSI F10348/1 [6],
Eschmeyer & Fricke, 2010; adjective, -is, -is, -e)
? Noemacheilus sargadensis paludani Bănărescu & Nalbant,
1966a: 167, figs. 9–10, pl. 21 figs. 1–2 (type locality:
Northeastern Afghanistan: small tributary of Pech River
[Kabul River drainage] at Gusalek; holotype: ZMUC
P 27101 [ex 2801]; noun in genitive, indeclinable)
Noemacheilus alepidotus nalbanti Bănărescu & Mirza, 1972:
121, pl. 1 figs. 1–2 (type locality: Pakistan: Rawlakot,
Azad Kashmir, Jhelum River drainage; holotype: ISBB
2490; noun in genitive, indeclinable)
Taxonomic notes. Synonymy follows Kullander et al. (1999:
137).
Nomenclatural notes. Menon & Yazdani (1968: 124) listed
6 syntypes of N. punjabensis (ZSI F 10348) collected on
16 July 1922 by Hora in 'stream below Watta Hills, salt range,
Punjab'. Although this locality data is not in agreement with
Hora's original data, they do not provide explanation.
10.28.13 Paraschistura sargadensis (Nikolski, 1900)
Nemachilus sargadensis Nikolski, 1900: 415 (type locality:
Persia: Sija-Rischan in Sargado [according to Berg, 1949:
876: Iran: Sargad Country in Kirman, near Kuh-i-tuftan
volcano [Taftan, 28°36'N 61°8'E; Sarhad Plateau]; syntypes:
ZISP 11700 [31], Eschmeyer & Fricke, 2010; adjective,
-is, -is, -e)
? Nemachilus turcmenicus Berg, 1932a: 149, fig. 1 (type
locality: Turkmenistan: creek near railway station Gjaurs
[Gevers, Gäwers; 37°47'46"N 58°43'43"E] [Kelte-China
stream, Cherokh, Eschmeyer & Fricke, 2010 [Kelte-
Çynar]]; syntypes: ZISP 11064 [3]; adjective, -us, -a, -um)
Taxonomic notes. Geography suggests that N. turcmenicus
is unlikely to be a synonym of S. sargadensis.
10.28.14 Paraschistura turcomana (Nikolski, 1947)
Nemachilus kessleri turcomanus Nikolski, 1947: 32, fig. 3
(type locality: Turkmenistan: Murgab River drainage:
Mary Province: Kushka River near Kushka city [35°16'N
62°20'E] / Kushka River near Margunovskyi [Merv,
Margiana, Mary, 37°35'45"N 61°49'30"E] [Murgab River:
endorheic basin earlier connected with Amu Darya];
syntypes: ZMMU P-5734 [3], P-5735 [1], Vasilieva et
al., in Pavlinov & Borissenko, 2001: 27; adjective, -us,
-a, -um)
Taxonomic notes. Usually listed as a subspecies or synonym
of S. kessleri, which geographical distance and isolation in
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widely disjunct endorheic basins, on either side of the Hindu
Kush range, make unlikely.
10.29 Petruichthys Menon, 1987
Petruichthys Menon, 1987: 181 (subgenus of Nemacheilus
Bleeker, 1863a: 37; type species: Nemachilus brevis
Boulenger, 1893: 203, by original designation). Gender
masculine.
Taxonomic notes. See comments under Yunnanilus.
Species inquirenda et incertae sedis
10.29.1 Petruichthys salmonides (Chaudhuri, 1911)
Nemachilus salmonides Chaudhuri, 1911: 18, pl. 1 figs. 3–
3a (type locality: China: Yunnan: Tengyueh district:
Mongpan [Mengban, 23°07'N 100°23'E, Mekong drainage;
Coggin Brown, 1910]; holotype: ZSI F 4732/1,
Menon & Yazdani, 1968: 124; adjective, indeclinable)
10.29.2 Petruichthys brevis (Boulenger, 1893)
Nemachilus brevis Boulenger, 1893: 203 (type locality: Burma:
Southern Shan States: Inlé Lake, Fort Stedman; lectotype:
BMNH 1893.6.30.83, designated by Kottelat &
Chu, 1988a: 79; adjective, -is, -is, -e)
10.30 Physoschistura Banarescu & Nalbant, in Singh,
Sen, Banarescu & Nalbant, 1982
Physoschistura Bănărescu & Nalbant, in Singh, Sen, Bănărescu
& Nalbant, 1982: 208 (type species: Nemacheilus
brunneanus Annandale, 1918: 45, by original designation).
Gender feminine.
10.30.1 Physoschistura brunneana (Annandale, 1918)
Nemachilus brunneanus Annandale, 1918: 44, pl. 2 fig. 2
(type locality: Burma: Yawnghwe Valley and Inlé Lake;
holotype: ZSI F 9406/1; adjective, -us, -a, -um)
10.30.2 Physoschistura chindwinensis Lokeshwor & Vishwanath,
2012
Physoschistura chindwinensis Lokeshwor & Vishwanath,
2012a: 231, fig. 1 (India: Manipur: Lokchao River at
Moreh [Irrawaddy drainage]; holotype: MUMF 11077)
10.30.3 Physoschistura elongata Sen & Nalbant, in Singh,
Sen, Banarescu & Nalbant, 1982
Physoschistura elongata Sen & Nalbant, in Singh, Sen,
Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1982: 211, figs. 18–21 (type locality:
India: Meghalaya: Barapani, 20 km from Shillong;
holotype: ZSI/ERS 3063; junior secondary homonym of
Aborichthys elongatus Hora, 1921c: 735 when both
placed in Nemacheilus by Menon, 1987: 131, 184; junior
secondary homonym of Nemachilus kungessanus
elongatus Herzenstein, 1888: 44, when placed in Nemacheilus
by Menon, 1987: 131; reinstated according to
Code art. 59.4; adjective, -us, -a, -um)
Noemacheilus barapaniensis Menon, 1987: 131 (replacement
name for Physoschistura elongata Sen & Nalbant,
in Singh, Sen, Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1982: 211; adjective,
-is, -is, -e)