Author: Smith, 1933
Comments: Inhabits streams with moderate to strong current over sandy or pebble substrate.  Feeds on may-flies.  Observed to form small  troops of up to 20 individuals above the substrate around large rocks.  This is in contrast with most of the nemacheilines which live solitary under stones.  A female measuring 4.16 cm SL with distended belly and ripe ovulae, about 0.7 mm in diameter (Ref. 39226).