Gray's stone loach

Gray's stone loach
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Balitoridae
Genus:	Balitora
Species:	B. brucei
Binomial name
	Balitora brucei; J. E. Gray, 1830
Synonyms
	Homaloptera brucei (Gray, 1830); Balitora maculata Gray, 1830; Homaloptera maculata (Gray, 1830); Platycara maculate (Gray, 1830); Platycara anisura McClelland & Griffith, 1842;

Gray's stone loach

Gray's stone loach (Balitora brucei) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Balitora. It is endemic to India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar. It grows to a maximum length of 10.5 cm.

Balitora brucei live in rapid streams in ditches. Females are most likely plumper than males.

Synonyms: Homaloptera maculata, Platycara maculata, Balitora maculata, Homaloptera brucei.^[1]

Footnotes

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Balitora brucei" in FishBase. April 2006 version.

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