Nemacheilidae

Aborichthys waikhomi

Aborichthys waikhomi

The Noa Dihing river runs through a tiger reserve

• Tropical
• Upper river
• Regional distribution
• Freshwater fish
• South Asia
• Elongated
• Small
• Tropical fish

Aborichthys waikhomi is a species of stone loach found in the Noa-Dihing River, upper Brahmaputra basin in the Namdapha National Park and Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh, India. This fish grows to a length of 6.8 centimetres (2.7 in) SL. The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Waikhom Vishwanath (b. 1954) of Manipur University, in thanks for his encouragement of the author’s work on this species.