Biology:Nemacheilus

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Nemacheilus
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Barred Loach (N. fasciatus)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Nemacheilus
Bleeker, 1863
Type species
Nemacheilus fasciatus
Valenciennes, 1846
Synonyms
  • Modigliania Perugia, 1893
  • Pogononemacheilus Fowler 1937
N. jaklesii

Nemacheilus is a genus of stone loaches native to Asia.

Species

There are currently 72 recognized species in this genus:[1]

Kottelat, 2022

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.
  2. Bohlen, J. & Šlechtová, V. (2011): Nemacheilus paucimaculatus, a new species of loach from the southern Malay Peninsula (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 59 (2): 201–204.
  3. Page, Lawrence M.; Pfeiffer, John M.; Suksri, Siriwan; Randall, Zachary S.; Boyd, David A. (2020). "Variation in the Arrow Loach, Nemacheilus masyae (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae), in Mainland Southeast Asia with Description of a New Species". Copeia 108 (2): 392–402. doi:10.1643/CI-19-305. ISSN 0045-8511. https://bioone.org/journals/copeia/volume-108/issue-2/CI-19-305/Variation-in-the-Arrow-Loach-Nemacheilus-masyae-Cypriniformes--Nemacheilidae/10.1643/CI-19-305.full. 

Wikidata ☰ Q588593 entry