Triplophysa

Triplophysa
Triplophysa stolickai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Triplophysa
Rendahl (de), 1933
Type species
Nemacheilus hutjertjuensis
Rendahl, 1933

Triplophysa is a large genus of stone loaches most of which are found in and around China. Some species are blind troglobites.

Species

There is currently some disagreement regarding the composition of this genus. The list below primarily follows Kottelat 2012 with the addition of newly described species.

There are currently 124 recognized species in this genus:[1]

References

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  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. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lan, J., Gan. X., Wu. T. & Yang, J. (2013): Cave Fishes of Guangxi, China. Science Press, Beijing. 1-266.
  3. Zheng, L.P., Yang, J.X. & Chen, X.Y. (2012): A new species of Triplophysa (Nemacheilidae: Cypriniformes), from Guangxi, southern China. Journal of Fish Biology, 80 (4): 831-841.
  4. Lin, Y., Li, C. & Song, J.-K. (2012): A new species of troglobitic loach (Cypriniformes, Balitoridae), Triplophysa jiarongensis, from Guizhou, China. (Chinese w/English abstract) Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 37 (3): 640-647.
  5. Wu, T.J., Yang, J. & Lan, J.H. (2012): A new blind loach, Triplophysa lihuensis (Teleostei: Balitoridae), from Guangxi, China. Zoological Studies, 51 (6): 874-880.
  6. Ren, Q., Yang, J.-X. & Chen, X.-Y. (2012): A new species of the genus Triplophysa (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae), Triplophysa longliensis sp. nov, from Guizhou, China. Zootaxa, 3586: 187–194.
  7. Yang, J., Wu, T.-J. & Yang, J.-X. (2012): A new cave-dwelling loach, Triplophysa macrocephala (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Balitoridae), from Guangxi, China. Environmental Biology of Fish, 93 (2): 169-175.
  8. He, C., Zhang, E & Song, Z. (2012): Triplophysa pseudostenura, a new nemacheiline loach (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) from the Yalong River of China. Zootaxa, 3586: 272–280.
  9. Li, W.-J., Chen, X.-C. & Hu, Y.-P. (2015): A new species of the genus Triplophysa (Nemacheilinae), Triplophysa qilianensis sp. nov, from Qinghai, China. Zootaxa, 3905 (3): 418–424.