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Schistura bairdi
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Nemacheilidae
Genus:	Schistura
Species:	S. bairdi
Binomial name
Schistura bairdi Kottelat, 2000

Schistura bairdi is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Schistura.

This species has so far only been found in the mainstream Mekong River in southern Laos in the Khone Falls area, which is on the border with Stung Treng and Preah Vihear provinces in northeastern Cambodia.

Etymology

This fish is named after Professor Ian G. Baird, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

References

1. Rainboth, W. (2011). "Schistura bairdi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T181190A7662842. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T181190A7662842.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Schistura bairdi". FishBase.

• Kottelat, M. 2000. Diagnoses of a new genus and 64 new species of fishes from Laos (Teleostei:

Cyprinidae, Balitoridae, Bagridae, Syngnathidae, Chaudhuriidae and Tetraodontidae). Journal of South Asian Natural History, 5 (1): 37-82.

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