Kuschakewitsch loach

Kuschakewitsch loach
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Nemacheilidae
Genus:	Iskandaria; , 2009
Species:	I. kuschakewitschi
Binomial name
	Iskandaria kuschakewitschi; (Herzenstein, 1890)
Synonyms
	Nemacheilus kuschakewitschi Herzenstein, 1890; Noemacheilus kuschakewitschi (Herzenstein, 1890); Nemacheilus pardalis Turdakov, 1941; Iskandaria pardalis Turdakov, 1941;

Iskandaria kuschakewitschi, the Kuschakewitsch loach, is a species of stone loach found in the Central Asian nations of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.^[1]

It is currently the only recognized species in this genus although the taxon Iskandaria pardalis is recognised by some authorities as a separate species.^[2]

References[]

^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Iskandaria kuschakewitschi" in FishBase. June 2011 version.
^ 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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[1] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Iskandaria kuschakewitschi" in FishBase. June 2011 version.

[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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