Olyra longicaudata (McClelland, 1842)

Dam, Debashree & Kumar, Anil, 2018, Fish Fauna of D’ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary and adjacent areas, Arunachal Pradesh, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (2), pp. 162-162 : 162-

14. Olyra longicaudata (McClelland, 1842)

1842. Olyra longicaudata McClelland, Calcutta. J. Nat. Hist. , 2: 588, fig.1 (Type locality: Khasi Hills , Meghalaya) .

Common name: Himalayan Olyra

Material examined: 01 Ex. (Regd. No. V/APFS/P 509), Portung forest, DWS, 13.02.09.

Distribution within NE: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Tripura. Distribution within Arunachal Pradesh: All major drainages of Arunachal Pradesh.

Special remarks: Its status is not evaluated at the national level but it is found in abundance in Arunachal Pradesh. It was collected from a small flowing rocky stream inside a dense forest near Berung village . It can be identified by the presence of four pairs of barbels and the maxillary pair reaches up to ventral fin base and the nasal pair reaches beyond orbit; forked caudal fin, upper lobe longer than lower .