Homatula change

Homatula change is distinguished from its congeners by an evenly scaled body; lower jaw with a median incision; dorsal crest reaching forward to vertical through posterior extremity of anal fin base; color pattern of 20-22 dark gray-brownish, irregularly split, oblique bars on light gray background with some bars having multiple furcations (Ref. 103396).

Dorsal soft rays (total): - 13; Analsoft rays: 10

Found in a small torrential rivulet, carved 1-2 m deep into the ground leaving little light penetrating through the canopy; upper course fringed by proliferating riparian vegetation, lower course drained cultivated hills, principally coffee plantations; lower course serves as a waste water channel bordering a small Hani village; the rivulet built puddles approximately 1 m wide and 0.2 m deep with most of its course just 0.5 m wide and 0.1 m deep; water ran over cascades, some of them up to 0.8 m high and very steep; the bottom covered by sand, pebbles, rocks, twigs, and leaf litter; only Homatula change occurred; frog Limnonectes lcuhlii observed in some puddles (Ref. 103396).