''Triplophysa alexandrae'' is a species of

stone loach The stone loach (''Barbatula barbatula'') is a European species of fresh water ray-finned fish in the family Nemacheilidae. It is one of nineteen species in the genus ''Barbatula''. Stone loaches live amongst the gravel and stones of fast flowin ...

in the genus ''

Triplophysa ''Triplophysa'' is a genus of fish in the family Nemacheilidae found mainly in and around the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China. Currently, the genus is a mixed assemblage of species. Some lineages have been identified and treated as subgenera (''H ...

'' endemic to Sichuan,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Alexandra Viktorovna Potanina (1843-1893), the wife and traveling companion of

Grigory Nikolayaevich Potanin Grigory Nikolayevich Potanin (alt. Grigorij Potanin) (russian: Григорий Николаевич Потанин; 4 October 1835 – 6 June 1920) was a Russian ethnographer Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ...

(1835-1920), a Russian explorer of Central Asia.

References

alexandrae Freshwater fish of China Endemic fauna of Sichuan Taxa named by Artem Mikhailovich Prokofiev Fish described in 2001 {{Nemacheilidae-stub