Encyclopedia > Hillstream loach

  Article Content

Hillstream loach

hillstream loaches
(image here)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Superclass[?]:Osteichthyes
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Cypriniformes
Family:Balitoridae
Genera
Subfamily Balitorinae
    Annamia[?]
    Balitora[?]
    Bhavania[?]
    Crossostoma[?]
    Cryptotora[?]
    Gastromyzon[?]
    Glaniopsis[?]
    Hemimyzon[?]
    Homaloptera[?]
    Hypergastromyzon[?]
    Lepturichthys[?]
    Liniparhomaloptera[?]
    Neohomaloptera[?]
    Paraprotomyzon[?]
    Parhomaloptera[?]
    Plesiomyzon[?]
    Protomyzon[?]
    Pseudogastromyzon[?]
    Pseudohomaloptera[?]
    Sectoria[?]
    Sewellia[?]
    Sinogastromyzon[?]
    Travancoria[?]
Subfamily Nemacheilinae
    Aborichthys[?]
    Acanthocobitis[?]
    Barbatula[?]
    Ellopostoma[?]
    Indoreonectes[?]
    Lefua[?]
    Longischistura[?]
    Mesonemacheilus[?]
    Micronemacheilus[?]
    Nemacheilus[?]
    Neonoemacheilus[?]
    Nun[?]
    Oreonectes[?]
    Orthrias[?]
    Paracobitis[?]
    Physoschistura[?]
    Schistura[?]
    Seminemacheilus[?]
    Sphaerophysa[?]
    Sundoreonectes[?]
    Triplophysa[?]
    Troglocobitis[?]
    Tuberoschistura[?]
    Turcinemacheilus[?]
    Vaillantella[?]
    Yunnanilus[?]
unclassified
    Beaufortia[?]
    Oreias[?]
    Vanmanenia[?]

The hillstream loaches are a family (Balitoridae) of small Eurasian fish that generally live in fast-flowing streams and have a large sucker mouth and modified ventral fins used for clinging to rocks. They have a number of similarities with the sibling family of loaches (Cobitidae), such as multiple barbels[?] around the mouth. They should not be confused with Plecostomus[?], which looks similar but is a type of catfish.

The family includes over 500 species in at least 52 genera. Many of the species are popular for aquaria.

External link



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Jamesport, New York

... race. There are 605 households out of which 26.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.7% are married couples living together, 8.8% have a fema ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 23.8 ms