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Genus of fishes
N. jaklesii
Nemacheilus is a genus of
stone loaches native to
Asia .
Species
There are currently 52 recognized species in this genus:
[1]
[2]
Nemacheilus anguilla
Annandale , 1919 (eel loach)
Nemacheilus arenicolus
Kottelat , 1998
Nemacheilus banar
Freyhof &
Serov , 2001
Nemacheilus binotatus
H. M. Smith , 1933
Nemacheilus chrysolaimos (
Valenciennes , 1846)
Nemacheilus cleopatra
Freyhof &
Serov , 2001
Nemacheilus corica (
F. Hamilton , 1822) (incertae sedis , most likely in this genus)
Nemacheilus doonensis (
Tilak &
Husain , 1977)
Nemacheilus drassensis (
Tilak , 1990)
Nemacheilus elegantissimus
P. K. Chin &
Samat , 1992
Nemacheilus fasciatus (
Valenciennes , 1846) (Barred loach)
Nemacheilus guentheri Day, 1867
Nemacheilus huapingensis Wu & Wu, 1992
Nemacheilus inglisi
Hora , 1935
Nemacheilus jaklesii (
Bleeker , 1852) (
species inquirenda in this genus)
Nemacheilus kaimurensis
Husain &
Tilak , 1998 (incertae sedis , most likely in this genus)
Nemacheilus kapuasensis
Kottelat , 1984
Nemacheilus keralensis (Rita, Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1978) (Kerala loach)
Nemacheilus lactogeneus Roberts, 1989
Nemacheilus longipectoralis
Popta , 1905
Nemacheilus longipinnis
C. G. E. Ahl , 1922
Nemacheilus longistriatus
Kottelat , 1990
Nemacheilus lunanensis Li & Xia, 1987
Nemacheilus marang
Hadiaty &
Kottelat , 2010
Nemacheilus masyae
H. M. Smith , 1933 (Arrow loach)
Nemacheilus menoni Zacharias & Minimol, 1999
Nemacheilus monilis
Hora , 1921 (incertae sedis , most likely in this genus)
Nemacheilus olivaceus
Boulenger , 1894
Nemacheilus ornatus
Kottelat , 1990
Nemacheilus oxianus
Kessler , 1877 (Amu-Darya stone loach)
Nemacheilus pallidus
Kottelat , 1990
Nemacheilus papillos
H. H. Tan &
Kottelat , 2009
Nemacheilus paucimaculatus
Bohlen &
Šlechtová , 2011
[3]
Nemacheilus periyarensis Madhusoodana Kurup & Radhakrishnan, 2005
Nemacheilus petrubanarescui Menon, 1984
Nemacheilus pfeifferae (
Bleeker , 1853)
Nemacheilus platiceps
Kottelat , 1990
Nemacheilus pulchellus Day, 1873
Nemacheilus rueppelli (
Sykes , 1839) (Mongoose loach)
Nemacheilus saravacensis
Boulenger , 1894
Nemacheilus selangoricus
Duncker , 1904 (Grey-banded loach)
Nemacheilus shehensis
Menon , 1987
Nemacheilus shuangjiangensis (
S. Q. Zhu &
S. H. Wang , 1985)
Nemacheilus singhi (
Menon , 1987)
Nemacheilus spiniferus
Kottelat , 1984
Nemacheilus stigmofasciatus
Arunachalam &
Muralidharan , 2009 (incertae sedis , most likely in this genus)
Nemacheilus subfusca (
McClelland , 1839)
Nemacheilus tebo
Hadiaty &
Kottelat , 2009
Nemacheilus triangularis Day, 1865
Nemacheilus troglocataractus
Kottelat &
Géry , 1989 (Blind cave loach)
Nemacheilus tuberigum
Hadiaty &
Siebert , 2001
Nemacheilus yingjiangensis
Zhu , 1982
Nemacheilus zonatus Page, Pfeiffer, Suksri, Randall & Boyd, 2020
[4]
References
^ 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.
^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024).
Species of Nemacheilus in
FishBase . February 2024 version.
^ Bohlen, J. & Šlechtová, V. (2011): Nemacheilus paucimaculatus, a new species of loach from the southern Malay Peninsula (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 59 (2): 201–204.
^ Page, Lawrence M.; Pfeiffer, John M.; Suksri, Siriwan; Randall, Zachary S.; Boyd, David A. (2020).
"Variation in the Arrow Loach, Nemacheilus masyae (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae), in Mainland Southeast Asia with Description of a New Species" . Copeia . 108 (2): 392–402.
doi :
10.1643/CI-19-305 .
ISSN
0045-8511 .