Conspectus cobitidum - Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research

10.34.155 Schistura rupecula McClelland, 1838
Schistura rupecula McClelland, 1838: 948, pl. 55 fig. 3 (type
locality: India: Himachal Pradesh: Simla [Shimla,
31°06'12"N 77 10'20"E]; syntypes: SMF 8993 [6]; also
in M'Clelland, 1839: 309, 441, erratum; adjective, -us,
-a, -um [but see below])
Schistura rupicola M'Clelland, 1839: erratum (unjustified
emendation of Schistura rupecula McClelland, 1838:
948)
Nemachilus rupecula var. inglisi Hora, 1935a: 58, pl. 3 figs.
9–10 (type locality: India: Eastern Himalayas, rivers below
Darjeeling and in Sikkim; holotype: ZSI F11755/1;
noun in genitive, indeclinable)
Taxonomic notes. Menon (1987: 52) placed without explanation
N. r. inglisi in the synonymy of S. multifasciata, which
is not followed. The figures of the two species in Hora
(1935a) and the figure of S. multifasciata in Day (1878a:
pl. 153 fig. 7) show conspicuously differently shaped and
patterned species.
Nomenclatural notes. Schistura rupecula first appeared in
McClelland (1838). It was repeated in M'Clelland (1839:
309, 441). The erratum sheet in the second work includes a
correction of rupecula into rupicola. Such a correction would
have been valid only if included in the original description.
The correction was linguistically correct but for nomenclature,
formally, it is an unjustified emendation.
Names ending in -cola (of which -cula is a misspelling)
are nouns; they are often mistaken as adjectives. McClelland
(1838) did not indicate if it was an noun or an adjective
and this is not apparent from the species account alone; therefore
it could be considered as a noun in apposition (Code
art. 31.2.2). But elsewhere in both the 1838 and 1839 works
McClelland described a Gonorhynchus rupeculus, in which
rupeculus is an adjective. I take this as informative that, in
Schistura too, rupecula is an adjective.
10.34.156 Schistura russa Kottelat, 2000
Schistura russa Kottelat, 2000: 71, fig. 57 (type locality:
Laos: Louangnamtha Province: Nam Tha at Ban Finho,
about 14 km north of Luang Nam Tha, Mekong drainage;
21°04'44"N 101°24'09"E; holotype: ZRC 45377;
adjective, -us, -a, -um)
10.34.157 Schistura savona (Hamilton, 1822)
Cobitis savona Hamilton, 1822: 357, 394 (type locality: India:
Kosi River [at Nathpur near the Nepal frontier; Hora,
1935a: 49]; types: NT; Hamilton's unpublished figure
reproduced in M'Clelland, 1839: pl. 53 fig. 3; noun in
apposition, indeclinable)
Cobites obscura Swainson, 1839: 310 (available by indication
to Hamilton, 1822: 357, No. 9 [which is C. savona];
type locality: India: Kosi River [at Nathpur; Hora, 1935a:
49]; types: NT; Hamilton's unpublished figure reproduced
in M'Clelland, 1839: pl. 53 fig. 3; adjective, -us, -a, -um)
? Shistura [sic] yenjitee Tekriwal & Rao, 1999: 93 (nomen
nudum; locality: Bhutan: Phuntsholing area)
10.34.158 Schistura scaturigina M'Clelland, 1839
Schistura scaturigina M'Clelland, 1839: 308, 443, pl. 53
fig. 6 (type locality: no data [probably India: below Dar-
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jeeling Himalayas; Hora, 1935a: 65]; types: lost, based
on an unpublished drawing by Hamilton; adjective, -us,
-a, -um)
Schistura subfusca M'Clelland, 1839: 308, 443, pl. 53 fig. 5
(type locality: India: Upper Assam; types: LU; simultaneous
subjective synonym of Schistura scaturigina
M'Clelland, 1839: 308, 443, first reviser [apparently
Hora, 1935a: 64] gave precedence to S. scaturigina; adjective,
-us, -a, -um)
Taxonomic notes. Synonymy partly based on Hora (1935a:
64) and Menon (1987: 86). Confirmation seems needed.
Menon also included S. shebbearei and S. zonata in the synonymy
of S. scaturigina but they are retained as valid here.
The status of all these nominal species should be critically
re-examined.
10.34.159 Schistura schultzi (Smith, 1945)
Noemacheilus schultzi Smith, 1945: 317, fig. 69 (type locality:
Thailand: Chiang Rai Province: Huey Melao on Doi
Hua Mot, Mekong drainage; holotype: USNM 107953;
noun in genitive, indeclinable)
10.34.160 Schistura semiarmata (Day, 1867)
Nemacheilus semiarmatus Day, 1867a: 286 (type locality:
India: Nilgherries: Bowany [Bhavani] and Seegoor Rivers,
Billicul Lake; syntypes: BMNH 1867.7.24.25–27 [3],
AMS B.7740 [1], Whitehead & Talwar, 1976: 157; adjective,
-us, -a, -um)
10.34.161 Schistura sertata Kottelat, 2000
Schistura sertata Kottelat, 2000: 71, fig. 58 (type locality:
Laos: Louangphabang Province: Mekong drainage, Nam
Xi below Kuang Xi waterfall, upstream of Ban Thapen;
19°45'10"N 102°00'10"E; holotype: ZRC 45379; adjective,
-us, -a, -um)
10.34.162 Schistura sexcauda (Fowler, 1937)
Nemacheilus sexcauda Fowler, 1937: 156, figs. 75–76 (type
locality: Thailand: Me Poon [Mae Phun, a stream entering
Mae Nam Yom at 17°40'N 99°42'E, Chao Phraya
drainage, de Schauensee, 1946: 5; see Kottelat, 1990a:
207 for discussion of locality]; holotype: ANSP 68007;
compound noun, indeclinable)
Noemacheilus fowlerianus Smith, 1945: 306 (type locality:
Thailand: Me Poon [Mae Phun, a stream entering Mae
Nam Yom at 17°40'N 99°42'E, Chao Phraya drainage,
de Schauensee, 1946: 5; see Kottelat, 1990a: 207 for discussion
of locality]; lectotype: ANSP 108189, designated
by Kottelat, 1990a: 207; adjective, -us, -a, -um)
10.34.163 Schistura shadiwalensis Mirza & Nalbant, in
Mirza, Nalbant & Banarescu, 1981
Schistura shadiwalensis Mirza & Nalbant, in Mirza, Nalbant
& Bănărescu, 1981: 125, figs. 51–55 (type locality:
Pakistan: Punjab: Gujrat District: Shadiwal [32°37'13"N
74°14'49"E] on Chenab River, right-side tributary of
Sutlej River; holotype: ISBB 3369; adjective, -is, -is, -e)
Taxonomic notes. Menon (1987: 74) treated this species as
synonym of S. horai, without discussion. The figures in the
original descriptions of both species show great differences