Diagnosis
Schistura amplizona is readily distinguished by its
specific color pattern: Five to seven dark brown
elongated blotches, much wider than interspaces and
usually the widest at midline, superimposed by a broad,
faint brown midlateral stripe on a yellowish body;
blotches usually wider anteriorly than posteriorly; some
blotches ovoid (autapomorphic characteristic); basal
caudal bar prominent black, slightly oblique, restricted to
the lower two-thirds; a black spot at the base of the upper
principal caudal fin rays in some specimens; dorsal fin
with a prominent dark brown horizontal blotch along the
base; all fins with series of dark marks. Morphological
characteristics are an elongate head and body; lower jaw
without a notch; caudal-peduncle posteriorly with hard
dorsal and ventral crests, 1.42