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Canthophrys gongota, Gongota loach
Subject: Canthophrys gongota, Gongota loach
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Somileptes gongota Day 155 - Canthophrys gongota, Gongota loach.jpg
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Canthophrys gongota, Gongota loach


Description
The species names / identity need verification - original names from plate are included here. The original plates showed the fishes facing right and have been flipped here. Somileptes gongota
Date 1878
Source Day, Francis (1878) The Fishes of India. Volume 2. https://archive.org/stream/fishesofindiabei02dayf#page/n5/mode/2up
Author Francis Day
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Somileptes_gongota_Day_155.jpg

Canthophrys gongota, the Gongota loach, is a species of loach from South Asia. It is the only species in its genus. Order: Cypriniformes, Family: Cobitidae, Genus: Canthophrys, Species: Canthophrys gongota (F. Hamilton, 1822), Cobitis gongota Hamilton, 1822; Somileptes gongota (Hamilton, 1822); Cobitis cucura Hamilton, 1822; Cobitis oculata McClelland, 1839; Canthophrys bispinosa Swainson, 1839; Somileptes bispinosa (Swainson, 1839); Canthophrys albescens Swainson, 1839; Cobitis amnicola Valenciennes, 1846

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