Gastromyzontidae

Gastromyzontidae
Beaufortia kweichowensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Gastromyzontidae
Fowler, 1905
Genera[1]

The Gastromyzontidae are a family of loaches native to China and Southeast Asia, where typically found in streams and river with a fast current. This family was resurrected by M. Kottelat in his review and revision of the loaches in 2012.

References

  1. 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.
  2. Yang, J., Kottelat, M., Yang, J.-X. & Chen, X.-Y. (2012): Yaoshania and Erromyzon kalotaenia, a new genus and a new species of balitorid loaches from Guangxi, China (Teleostei: Cypriniformes). Zootaxa, 3586: 173–186.