Schistura porthos

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Juffe Bignoli, D. |date=2012 |title=Schistura porthos |volume=2012 |page=e.T180775A1661516 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T180775A1661516.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| taxon = Schistura porthos

| authority = Kottelat, 2000{{FishBase | genus = Schistura | species = porthos | year = 2017 | month = October}}

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Schistura porthos is a species of ray-finned fish in the stone loach genus Schistura from the Mekong basin; the Nam Ngiap, Nam Khan, Nam Xuang, Nam Ou and Nam Tha drainages in northern Laos and the Luosuojiang drainage in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. The specific name comes from one of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers, Aramis as do that of two other Schistura species endemic to the Nam Ou basin, S. athos and S.aramis.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/loaches3/ | title = Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (Stone Loaches) | accessdate = 21 January 2017 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | year = 2017}}

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