Biology:Ambastaia
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Short description: Genus of fishes
Ambastaia | |
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Dwarf Botia (A. sidthimunki) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Botiidae |
Genus: | Ambastaia Kottelat, 2012 |
Type species | |
Botia nigrolineata Kottelat & Chu 1987
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Ambastaia is a genus of botiid loaches native to Mainland Southeast Asia and China .[1] The species in this genus were formerly included in Yasuhikotakia.
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Ambastaia nigrolineata (Kottelat & X. L. Chu, 1987)
- Ambastaia sidthimunki (Klausewitz, 1959) (Dwarf botia)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
Wikidata ☰ Q2782388 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambastaia.
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