sikmaiensis, Nemachilus Hora [S. L.] 1921:201, Pls. 9 (fig. 4), 10 (figs. 1,1a) [Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 22 (pt 3, no. 19); ref. 2202] Putao, Myanmar. Neotype: NRM 10740 [ex MAL/1934168.3740 lost]. Original genus is correctly Nemacheilus. See Das 2003:365 [ref. 27706]. Type ZSI F 9932/1 lost; neotype designated by Kottelat 1990:210 [ref. 14137]; neotype is also the holotype of Nemacheilus putaoensis Rendahl 1948. Reasons for loss of ZSI type specimens during WWII see Chopra 1947:349-350 [ref. 33077]. •Valid as Nemacheilus sikmaiensis Hora 1921 -- (Menon 1987:201 [ref. 14149] as Noemacheilus, Ataur Rahman 1989:149 [ref. 24860] as Nemachilus, Talwar & Jhingran 1991:504 [ref. 20764], Sen 1995:550 [ref. 23778], Zhu 1995:112 [ref. 25213], Menon 1999:179 [ref. 24904] as Noemacheilus, Karmakar 2000:31 [ref. 25662] as Noemacheilus). •Valid as Schistura sikmaiensis (Hora 1921) -- (Kottelat 1990:208 [ref. 14137], Bănărescu & Nalbant 1995:440 [ref. 23187], Vishwanath & Laisram 2001:210 [ref. 25886], Ataur Rahman 2003:169 [ref. 31338], Vishwanath & Shanta Kumar 2006:210 [ref. 28652], Kottelat et al. 2007:39 [ref. 28942], Kottelat et al. 2007:40 [ref. 28942], Shrestha 2008:134 [ref. 29923] as sikamaiensis, Lokeshwor & Vishwanath 2011:1514 [ref. 31183], Conway et al. 2011:1747 [ref. 31594], Lokeshwor et al. 2012:262 [ref. 32337], Kottelat 2012:118 [ref. 32367], Lalronunga et al. 2013:589 [ref. 32927], Kottelat 2013:211 [ref. 32989], Bohlen & Šlechtová 2014:222 [ref. 33238], Khynrian & Sen 2014:27 [ref. 33853], Shangningam et al. 2014:190 [ref. 33318], Endruweit 2014:358 [ref. 33494], Solo et al. 2014:259 [ref. 33517], Lalramliana et al. 2014:211 [ref. 33628], Zhang et al. 2016:134 [ref. 34477], Kottelat 2017:97 [ref. 35308], Bleher 2018:240 [ref. 36647], Choudhury et al. 2019:50 [ref. 36483], Chen et al. 2020:101 [ref. 38014], Du et al. 2021:4 [ref. 38600]). Current status: Valid as Schistura sikmaiensis (Hora 1921). Nemacheilidae. Distribution: South and East Asia: upper Irrawaddy and Chindwin basin, Manipur (India, Myanmar and China). Habitat: freshwater.
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