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Eastern crested loach

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2022
Entity authorityQ3760525 ↗
Source-derived summary

The eastern crested loach (Paracobitis longicauda) is a species of stone loach native to Central Asia. This species grows to a length of 20 centimetres (7.9 in) TL.

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Paracobitis longicauda". FishBase. December 2012 version.

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“Eastern crested loach” enters the record as species of fish. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eastern, crested and loach can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q3760525. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eastern crested loach” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.