Author: Rayamajhi & Arunachalam, 2017
Comments: Found in sampling localities with clear, bluish, moderately flowing water (0.61 mean depth and average width 10 meter) and with a mixed substrate of sand, silt, gravel, pebbles, boulders and bedrock.  Other fishes collected include <i>Schizothorax richardsonii</i> (Gray), <i>Barilius bendelisis</i>  (Hamilton), <i>Naziritor cheilynoides</i>  (McClelland) and <i>Tor tor</i>  (Hamilton). The following physico-chemical parameters were taken in the sampling site on 11 April 2014:  air temperature 20ºC, water temperature 23ºC, pH 7.2, dissolved oxygen 7.9 mg/l, conductivity 021 μs, and total dissolved solids 163 ppm in 2 pm at noon (Ref. 118052).