Author: Tamang, Sinha, Abujam & Kumar, 2019
Comments: Inhabits medium to large dark to grayish brown boulders along the river banks with heavy sand deposits. The river with cool and clear, fast to moderate running water, the bed consists of flat boulders, pebbles, cobbles covered by slime algae, and somewhere heavy sand deposits. The river banks and uphill with small to large trees and shrubs. Associated species collected at the type locality includes <i>Garra kalpangi, Tor putitora, Neolissochilus hexagonolepis, Barilius bendelisis, Schizothorax richardsonii, Chagunius chagunio, Aborichthys cataracta, Psilorhynchus balitora</i>, and <i>Schistura</i> sp. (Ref. 119513).