Chirruh snowtrout | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Cyprinidae |
Genus: | Schizothorax |
Species: | S. esocinus
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Binomial name | |
Schizothorax esocinus (
Heckel, 1838)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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The Chirruh snowtrout (Schizothorax esocinus) is a species of cyprinid fish found in the Himalyays in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Nepal and China.
Found mostly in mountain streams, rivers and gravel-bottomed rivers. They feed on bottom detritus and they migrate to spawn in tributary streams where breeding occurs in gravel and sandy beds. [2]
Chirruh snowtrout | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Cyprinidae |
Genus: | Schizothorax |
Species: | S. esocinus
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Binomial name | |
Schizothorax esocinus (
Heckel, 1838)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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The Chirruh snowtrout (Schizothorax esocinus) is a species of cyprinid fish found in the Himalyays in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Nepal and China.
Found mostly in mountain streams, rivers and gravel-bottomed rivers. They feed on bottom detritus and they migrate to spawn in tributary streams where breeding occurs in gravel and sandy beds. [2]