Biology:Schistura

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Schistura
Schistura mahnerti.jpg
Schistura mahnerti
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Schistura
McClelland, 1838
Type species
Cobitis rupecula
McClelland, 1838
Synonyms
  • Acoura Swainson, 1839
  • Longischistura Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1995

Schistura is a genus of fish in the stone loach family Nemacheilidae native to the streams and rivers of the southern and eastern Asia. Some of these species are troglobitic.[1][2]

Species

There are currently over 200 recognized species in this genus:[1]


See also

  • Sgouros, Katherine; Lawrence M. Page; Sarah A. Orlofske; and Robert C. Jadin (2019). A Revised Molecular Phylogeny Reveals Polyphyly in Schistura (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4559(2): 349–362. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4559.2.8

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Schistura in FishBase. June 2017 version.
  2. Kottelat, M. (2012). "Conspectus_cobitidum.pdf Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement No. 26: 1–199. https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/app/uploads/2017/06/Conspectus_cobitidum.pdf. 

Wikidata ☰ Q135403 entry