Lepidocephalus guntea

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	CYPRINIFORMES	COBITIDAE

Scientific Name:

Species Authority:

(Hamilton, 1822)

Common Name/s:

English

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Guntea Loach, Peppered Loach, Scavenger Loach

Synonym/s:

Canthophrys olivaceus Swainson, 1839

Canthophrys vittatus Swainson, 1839

Cobitis balgara Hamilton, 1822

Cobitis guntea Hamilton, 1822

Cobitis maya Sykes, 1839

Cobitis phoxocheila McClelland, 1839

Lepidocephalichthys nepalensis Shrestha, 1980

Lepidocephalus dibruensis Sen, 1979

Misgurnus lateralis Günther, 1868

Schistura aculeata McClelland, 1839

Red List Category & Criteria:	Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published:	2012
Assessor/s:	Allen, D.
Reviewer/s:	Dahanukar, N., Raghavan, R., Ali, A., Cox, N.A., Rema Devi, K.R. & Molur, S.
Contributor/s:
Justification: The species has a wide distribution and is assessed as Least Concern.

Range Description:	The species has a wide distribution across the northern parts of South Asia, from Pakistan (North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Punjab, and Sindh; Mirza 2002), central and northern India (Menon 1999), Nepal (common in the Terai and hills from altitudes of 76-1,372 m (Shrestha 1994); found in the Bagmati, Kali Gandaki and Pokhara lakes), and Bangladesh. Records from Myanmar (Salween basin (Oo 2002) and presumably in western and central drainages), and from Thailand by Talwar and Jhingran (1991) are possible but probably refer to other species.
Countries:	Native: Bangladesh; India (Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chattisgarh, Dadra-Nagar-Haveli, Daman, Darjiling, Delhi, Diu, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu-Kashmir, Jharkand, Karaikal, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Mahé, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Yanam); Myanmar (Myanmar (mainland)); Nepal; Pakistan
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Population:	A common species.
Population Trend:	Stable

Habitat and Ecology:	Found in flowing and clear standing waters (Talwar and Jhingran 1994).
Systems:	Freshwater

Major Threat(s):	Not threatened across its range.

Major Threat(s):

Not threatened across its range.

Conservation Actions:	None required.

Conservation Actions:

None required.

Citation:	Allen, D. 2012. Lepidocephalus guntea. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 May 2013.
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