Ellopostoma
| Ellopostoma | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Ellopostomatidae Bohlen & Šlechtová, 2009 |
| Genus: | Ellopostoma Vaillant, 1902 |
Ellopostoma is a small genus of loaches native to Southeast Asia.[1] This is the only genus in the family Ellopostomatidae, having been confirmed as being in a family of its own by M. Kottelat in his review of the loaches in 2012.[2]
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- Ellopostoma megalomycter (Vaillant, 1902)
- Ellopostoma mystax H. H. Tan & K. K. P. Lim, 2002 (enigmatic loach)
References
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Ellopostoma in FishBase. December 2012 version.
- ↑ 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.
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