Metaschistura cristata

Metaschistura cristata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Balitoridae
Genus:	Metaschistura Prokofiev, 2009
Species:	M. cristata
Binomial name
Metaschistura cristata (Berg, 1898)

Metaschistura cristata, the Turkmenian crested loach, is a species of loach found only in Turkmenistan and Afghanistan in Central Asia. It is the only species in its genus.

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Metaschistura cristata" in FishBase. June 2011 version.