schizothoracine

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schizothoracine (plural schizothoracines)

  1. Any cyprinid fish of the genus Schizothorax (snow carps, snowtrouts, and marinkas).
    • 2015 December 15, “Into Tibet: An Early Pliocene Dispersal of Fossil Zokor (Rodentia: Spalacidae) from Mongolian Plateau to the Hinterland of Tibetan Plateau”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Studies of fossil schizothoracine fishes from the Kunlun Pass Basin indicated that the East Kunlun Mountain had not yet become a prominent biological barrier in the early Pliocene [57 ].