Biology:Lefua
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Short description: Genus of fishes
| Lefua | |
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| Lefua echigonia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Lefua Herzenstein, 1888 |
| Type species | |
| Lefua pleskei Herzenstein, 1888
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Lefua is a genus of stone loaches native to East Asia.this genus have Barbels at their mouths (usually three pairs) and their nostrils (usually one pair). Some other traits typically found in this family are their bodies are round column, swimming well.[1]
Species
There are currently eight recognized species in this genus:[2] [1] [3]
- Lefua costata (Kessler, 1876) (Eightbarbel loach)(Continental eight barbeled loach)
- Lefua echigonia D. S. Jordan & R. E. Richardson, 1907(Japanese eight barbeled loach)
- Lefua hoffmanni Herre, 1932
- Lefua nikkonis (D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1903)(ainu eight barbeled loach)
- Lefua pleskei (Herzenstein, 1888)
- Lefua sayu (Herre & S. Y. Lin, 1936)
- lefua torrentis (Hosoya,Ito & Miyazaki, 2018)(stream eight barbeled loach)
- lefua tokaiensis (Hosoya,Ito & Miyazaki, 2019)(tokai stream eight barbeled loach)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nakajima, J. (2017). "LOACHES OF JAPAN (Natural History and Culture)". Yama-kei Publishers Co., Ltd. 1 (1): 174–175.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Hosoya, K. (2019). "Freshwater fish of Japan". Yama-kei Publishers Co., Ltd. 15 (1): 210–212.
Wikidata ☰ Q6423300 entry
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