The Tibetan stone loach (''Triplophysa stolickai'') is a

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Nemacheilidae The Nemacheilidae, or stone loaches, are a family of cypriniform fishes that inhabit stream environments, mostly in Eurasia, with one genus, ''Afronemacheilus'' found in Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous ...

. The

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is sometimes spelled ''stoliczkae'' but the original spelling used by Steindachner is ''stoličkai''.Wu, Y.-Y., Sun, Z.-Y. & Guo, Y.-S. (2016): A new species of the genus Triplophysa (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae), ''Triplophysa daochengensis'', from Sichuan Province, China. ''Zoological Research, 37 (5): 290–296.'' It is found in southern and central

Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which ...

Etymology

The stone loach is named in honor of paleontologist

Ferdinand Stoliczka Ferdinand Stoliczka (Czech language, Czech written Stolička, 7 June 1838 – 19 June 1874) was a Moravian palaeontologist who worked in India on paleontology, geology and various aspects of zoology, including ornithology, malacology, and herpe ...

(1838–1874). Stoliczka was the one who collected the type specimen.

References

Triplophysa Freshwater fish of Asia Fauna of Tibet Freshwater fish of China Freshwater fish of India Fish of Afghanistan Fish of Iran Fish of Pakistan Fish of Central Asia Fish described in 1866 Taxa named by Franz Steindachner {{Nemacheilidae-stub