Barbatula

Barbatula
Barbatula barbatula
Barbatula quignardi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Barbatula
H. F. Linck, 1790

Barbatula is a genus of stone loach. Formerly containing many more species, Maurice Kottelat's revision of 2012 reduced the size of this genus by nearly half as many species were moved to Oxynoemacheilus.

Species

There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus:[1]

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. 1 2 Prokofiev, A.M. (2015): A new species of Barbatula from the Russian Altai (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 4052 (4): 457–464.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, December 04, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.