Biology:Ambastaia

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Ambastaia
Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki.jpg
Dwarf Botia (A. sidthimunki)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Botiidae
Genus: Ambastaia
Kottelat, 2012
Type species
Botia nigrolineata
Kottelat & Chu 1987

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. 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