The Nemacheilidae, or stone loaches, are a family of cypriniform fishes that inhabit stream environments, mostly in Eurasia, with one genus, Afronemacheilus found in Africa. The family includes about 790 species.
| Nemacheilidae | |
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| Triplophysa ferganaensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae Regan, 1911 |
| Genera | |
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Around 50, see text | |
Genera
editThe following are the described genera of the family:[1]
- Aborichthys
- Acanthocobitis
- Afronemacheilus
- Barbatula
- Claea
- Draconectes[2]
- Dzihunia
- Eidinemacheilus[3]
- Hedinichthys
- Heminoemacheilus
- Homatula
- Indoreonectes
- Indotriplophysa
- Iskandaria
- Labiatophysa
- Lefua
- Mesonoemacheilus
- Micronemacheilus
- Mustura[4]
- Nemacheilus
- Nemachilichthys
- Neonoemacheilus
- Oreonectes
- Oxynoemacheilus including Ilamnemacheilus
- Paracanthocobitis[5]
- Paracobitis
- Paranemachilus
- Paraschistura
- Petruichthys
- Physoschistura
- Protonemacheilus
- Pteronemacheilus[6]
- Qinghaichthys
- Rhyacoschistura[7]
- Sasanidus[8]
- Schistura
- Sectoria
- Seminemacheilus
- Speonectes
- Sphaerophysa
- Sundoreonectes
- Tarimichthys
- Traccatichthys
- Triplophysa
- Troglocobitis
- Troglonectes[9]
- Tuberoschistura
- Turcinoemacheilus
- Yunnanilus
References
edit- ^ Kottelat, M. (2012). "Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (Suppl. 26): 1–199. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 February 2013.
- ^ Kottelat, M. (2012): Draconectes narinosus, a new genus and species of cave fish from an island of Halong Bay, Vietnam (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 119 (3): 341–349.
- ^ Segherloo, I.H., Ghaedrahmati, N. & Freyhof, J. (2016): Eidinemacheilus, a new generic name for Noemacheilus smithi Greenwood (Teleostei; Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 4147 (4): 466–476.
- ^ Kottelat, M. (2018). Mustura celata, a new genus and species of loaches from northern Myanmar, and an overview of Physoschistura and related taxa (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. v. 28 (no. 4) [IEF-1080]: [1-26] 289–314. [First published online, No. IEF-1080, p. 1–26, 2 Aug. 2018; volume number and pages added on 12 Oct. 2018
- ^ Singer, R.A. & Page, L.M. (2015): Revision of the Zipper Loaches, Acanthocobitis and Paracanthocobitis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae), with Descriptions of Five New Species. Copeia, 103 (2): 378–401.
- ^ Bohlen, J. & Šlechtová, V. (2011): A new genus and two new species of loaches (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Myanmar. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 22 (1): 1–10.
- ^ Kottelat, Maurice (2019-05-29). "Rhyacoschistura larreci , a new genus and species of loach from Laos and redescription of R. suber (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)". Zootaxa. 4612 (2): 151–170. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4612.2.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 31717063. S2CID 191155334.
- ^ Freyhof, J., Geiger, M.F., Golzarianpour, K. & Patimar, R. (2016): Sasanidus, a new generic name for Noemacheilus kermanshahensis Bănărescu & Nalbant, with discussion of Ilamnemacheilus and Schistura (Teleostei; Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 4107 (1): 65–80.
- ^ Zhang, C.-G.; Zhao, Y.-H. (2016). Species Diversity and Distribution of Inland Fishes in China. Science Press. p. 284. ISBN 9787030472106.
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