Nemachilichthys ruppelli

Nemachilichthys ruppelli

Taxonavigation: Cobitoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cobitoidei

Familia: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Nemachilichthys
Species: Nemachilichthys ruppelli

Name

Nemachilichthys ruppelli (Sykes, 1839)

• Syntypes or possible syntypes: AMS B.7528 (1) Poonah.

Type locality: Deccan, India.

Etymology: in honor of naturalist and explorer Eduard Rüppell (1794-1884), who looked over Sykes’ drawing and shared his opinions on the genera of fishes. (From The ETYFish project)

Synonyms

• Cobitis rupelli Sykes, 1839
  • Nemacheilus rueppelli (Sykes, 1839) -- Menon, 1987
  • Nemachilichthys rueppelli (Sykes, 1839) -- Keskar et al., 2015
  • Noemacheilus ruppelli (Sykes, 1839) -- Talwar & Jhingran, 1991
  • Noemacheilus rupelli (Sykes, 1839) -- Yadav, 2000
• Nemachilichthys shimogensis Narayan Rao, 1920

References

• Keskar, A., Kumkar, P., Katwate, U., Ali, A., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. 2015. Redescription of Nemachilichthys rueppelli, a senior synonym of N. shimogensis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4059(3): 555–568.DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.3.7 Reference page. 
• Keskar, A., Kumkar, P., Katwate, U., Ali, A., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. 2015. Corrigendum: Redescription of Nemachilichthys rueppelli, a senior synonym of N. shimogensis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4111(1): 100–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.9. Reference page. 
• Kullander, S.O. 2016. Nemachilichthys ruppelli (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) and the proper correction of the German umlaut. Zootaxa 4111(1): 92–99. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.8 Full Article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Sykes, W.H. 1839. On the fishes of the Deccan. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1838(6): 157–165. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Nemachilichthys ruppelli in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Nemachilichthys ruppelli in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.