Biology:Balitora

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Balitora
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Balitora brucei
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Balitoridae
Genus: Balitora
J. E. Gray, 1830
Type species
Balitora brucei
Gray, 1830

Balitora is a genus of fish in the family Balitoridae endemic to Asia.[1]

Species

There are currently 20 recognized species in this genus:

  • Balitora annamitica Kottelat, 1988
  • Balitora brucei J. E. Gray, 1830 (Gray's stone loach)
  • Balitora burmanica Hora, 1932 (Burmese stone loach)
  • Balitora chipkali Kumkar, U. Katwate, Raghavan & Dahanukar, 2016 (Chipkali stone loach) [2]
  • Balitora eddsi Conway & Mayden, 2010
  • Balitora jalpalli Raghavan, Tharian, Ali, Jadhav & Dahanukar, 2013 [3]
  • Balitora kwangsiensis (P. W. Fang, 1930)
  • Balitora lancangjiangensis (C. Y. Zheng, 1980)
  • Balitora laticauda Bhoite, Jadhav & Dahanukar, 2012 [4]
  • Balitora longibarbata (Y. R. Chen, 1982)
  • Balitora ludongensis S. W. Liu & X. Y. Chen, 2012 [5]
  • Balitora meridionalis Kottelat, 1988
  • Balitora mysorensis Hora, 1941 (Slender stone loach)
  • Balitora nantingensis X. Y. Chen, G. H. Cui & J. X. Yang, 2005 (species inquirenda in Balitora)
  • Balitora nigrocorpa Nguyen, 2005
  • Balitora nujiangensis Zhang & Zheng, 1983
  • Balitora tchangi Zheng, 1982
  • Balitora vanlani Nguyen, 2005
  • Balitora vanlongi Nguyen, 2005

References

  1. Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
  2. Kumkar, P., Katwate, U., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. (2016): Balitora chipkali, a new species of stone loach (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from the northern Western Ghats of India, with a note on the distribution of B. laticauda. Zootaxa, 4138 (1): 155–170.
  3. Raghavan, R., Tharian, J., Ali, A., Jadhav, S. & Dahanukar, N. (2013): Balitora jalpalli, a new species of stone loach (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) from Silent Valley, southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 5 (5): 3921–3934.
  4. Bhoite, S., Jadhav, S. & Dahanukar, N. (2012): Balitora laticauda, a new species of stone loach (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) from Krishna River, northern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 4 (11): 3038–3049.
  5. Liu, S.-W., Zhu, Y., Wei, R.-f. & Chen, X.-Y. (2012): A new species of the genus Balitora (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from Guangxi, China. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 93 (3): 369-375.

Wikidata ☰ Q3755282 entry