Mesonoemacheilus menoni

Mesonoemacheilus menoni is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Mesonoemacheilus.^[2] It is endemic to the southern Western Ghats in Kerala, India, where it occurs in the upper reaches of the Periyar River over substrates of cobbles, pebbles and sand in flowing water. It is common within the Periyar Tiger Reserve but may be threatened by predation and competition from the invasive African cichlid Mozambique tilapia, the common carp and Clarias gariepinus.^[1]

Mesonoemacheilus menoni
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Nemacheilidae
Genus:	Mesonoemacheilus
Species:	M. menoni
Binomial name
Mesonoemacheilus menoni (Zacharias & Minimol, 1999)
Synonyms
Nemacheilus menoni Zacharias & Minimol, 1999

References

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Nemacheilus menoni". FishBase.

1. Raghavan, R.; Ali, A. (2011). "Nemacheilus menoni". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T172349A6873754. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T172349A6873754.en. Downloaded on 29 December 2017.
2. Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived 2013-02-11 at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.

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