''Triplophysa alticeps'' is a species of

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or h ...

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 (''He ...

''. These stone loaches are occasionally placed in the genus ''

Qinghaichthys ''Qinghaichthys'' is a subgenus the genus ''Triplophysa'', stone loaches native to China. Some authorities recognise this as a valid genus but this is not recognised by Fishbase. Species There are currently four recognized species in this gen ...

'' by some authorities.Kottelat, M. (2012)
Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei).
''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.'' It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...

to Qinghaihu Lake in

Qinghai Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest po ...

Province, China.

Footnotes

alticeps Taxa named by Solomon Herzenstein Fish described in 1888 {{Nemacheilidae-stub