Biology:Lepidocephalichthys

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Lepidocephalichthys
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Lepidocephalichthys guntea
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cobitidae
Genus: Lepidocephalichthys
Bleeker, 1863
Type species
Cobitis hasselti
Valenciennes, 1846
Species

See text

Lepidocephalichthys barbatuloides
Lepidocephalichthys hasselti

Lepidocephalichthys is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cobitidae.

Species

There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus:[1]

  • Lepidocephalichthys alkaia Havird & Page, 2010
  • Lepidocephalichthys annandalei B. L. Chaudhuri, 1912 (Annandale loach)
  • Lepidocephalichthys arunachalensis (A. K. Datta & Barman, 1984)
  • Lepidocephalichthys barbatuloides (Bleeker, 1851)
  • Lepidocephalichthys berdmorei (Blyth, 1860) (Burmese loach)
  • Lepidocephalichthys coromandelensis (Menon, 1992)
  • Lepidocephalichthys furcatus (de Beaufort, 1933)
  • Lepidocephalichthys goalparensis Pillai & Yazdani, 1976
  • Lepidocephalichthys guntea (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Guntea loach)
  • Lepidocephalichthys hasselti (Valenciennes, 1846)
  • Lepidocephalichthys irrorata Hora, 1921 (Loktak loach)
  • Lepidocephalichthys jonklaasi (Deraniyagala, 1956) (Jonklaas' s loach)
  • Lepidocephalichthys kranos Havird & Page, 2010
  • Lepidocephalichthys lorentzi (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1916)
  • Lepidocephalichthys micropogon (Blyth, 1860)
  • Lepidocephalichthys thermalis (Valenciennes, 1846) (Common spiny loach)
  • Lepidocephalichthys tomaculum Kottelat & K. K. P. Lim, 1992
  • Lepidocephalichthys zeppelini Havird & Tangjitjaroen, 2010

References

  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 ☰ Q142303 entry