Chirruh snowtrout

The Chirruh snowtrout (Schizothorax esocinus) is a species of cyprinid fish found in the Himalyays in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Nepal and China.

Chirruh snowtrout
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Genus:	Schizothorax
Species:	S. esocinus
Binomial name
Schizothorax esocinus (Heckel, 1838)
Synonyms[2]
Racoma esocina (Heckel, 1838) Schizopyge esocinus (Heckel, 1838) Schizothoraichthys esocinus (Heckel, 1838) Schizothorax barbatus McClelland & Griffith, 1842 Racoma nobilis McClelland, 1842 Schizothorax nobilis (McClelland, 1842) Schizothorax punctatus Day, 1877 Schizothorax montanus Zugmayer, 1909

Biology

Found mostly in mountain streams, rivers and gravel-bottomed rivers. They feed on bottom detritus and they migrate to spawn in tributary streams where breeding occurs in gravel and sandy beds.^[3]