Biology:Balitoropsis
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Short description: Genus of fishes
| Balitoropsis | |
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| Balitoropsis zollingeri | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Balitoridae |
| Genus: | Balitoropsis H. M. Smith, 1945[1] |
| Type species | |
| Balitoropsis bartschi H. M. Smith 1945
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Balitoropsis also known as the lizard loaches is a genus of hillstream loaches native to eastern Asia.
Species
There are currently 2 recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Balitoropsis ophiolepis (Bleeker, 1853) (slender lizard loach)
- Balitoropsis zollingeri (Bleeker, 1853) (black lizard loach)
Species which were once classified in this genus,[3] but are now classified in other genera[4] include:
- In Homalopteroides Fowler, 1905:
- Homalopteroides stephensoni (Hora, 1923)
- Homalopteroides yuwonoi (Kottelat, 1998)
- In Pseudohomaloptera Silas, 1953:
- Pseudohomaloptera batek (Tan, 2009)
- Pseudohomaloptera leonardi (Hora, 1941)
- Pseudohomaloptera sexmaculata (Fowler, 1934)
- Pseudohomaloptera tatereganii (Popta, 1905)
- Pseudohomaloptera vulgaris (Kottelat & Chu, 1998)
- Pseudohomaloptera yunnanensis (Chen, 1978)
References
- ↑ Smith, Hugh M. (1945). "Balitoropsis, new genus". The Fresh-water Fishes of Siam, or Thailand. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 188. pp. 278–280. doi:10.5479/si.03629236.188.1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7679178.
- ↑ Randall, Z.S.; Riggs, P.A. (2015). "Revision of the hillstream lizard loaches, genus Balitoropsis (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae)". Zootaxa 3962 (1): 206–225. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3962.1.13. PMID 26249387. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/zt03962p225.pdf.
- ↑ Kottelat, Maurice (2012). "Balitoropsis Smith, 1945". Conspectus Cobitidum: An Inventory of the Loaches of the World (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology: Supplement. 26. Singapore: Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore. pp. 45–47. http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/nus/index.php/rbzhistory/12-research/research-publications/245-supplement-no-26.
- ↑ Randall, Zachary S.; Page, Lawrence M. (2015). "On the paraphyly of Homaloptera (Teleostei: Balitoridae) and description of a new genus of hillstream loaches from the Western Ghats of India". Zootaxa 3926 (1): 57–86. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3926.1.2. PMID 25781768. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273988267.
Further reading
Wikidata ☰ Q4851029 entry
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