Stone Loach

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Stone Loach
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Balitoridae
Genus: Nemacheilus
Species: N. barbatulus
Binomial name
Nemacheilus barbatulus
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Stone Loach (Nemacheilus barbatulus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the Balitoridae family. It is found in Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Republic of, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

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