Balitora
| Balitora | |
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| Balitora brucei | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Balitoridae |
| Genus: | Balitora J. E. Gray, 1830 |
| Type species | |
| Balitora brucei Gray, 1830
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Balitora is a genus of fish in the family Balitoridae endemic to Asia.[1]
Species[edit]
There are currently 21 recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Balitora annamitica Kottelat, 1988
- Balitora brucei J. E. Gray, 1830 (Gray's stone loach)
- Balitora burmanica Hora, 1932 (Burmese stone loach)
- Balitora chipkali Kumkar, U. Katwate, Raghavan & Dahanukar, 2016 (Chipkali stone loach) [3]
- Balitora eddsi Conway & Mayden, 2010
- Balitora elongata (Y. R. Chen & Z. Y. Li, 1985)
- Balitora haithanhi V. H. Nguyễn, 2005
- Balitora jalpalli Raghavan, Tharian, Ali, Jadhav & Dahanukar, 2013 [4]
- Balitora kwangsiensis (P. W. Fang, 1930)
- Balitora lancangjiangensis (C. Y. Zheng, 1980)
- Balitora laticauda Bhoite, Jadhav & Dahanukar, 2012 [5]
- Balitora longibarbata (Y. R. Chen, 1982)
- Balitora ludongensis S. W. Liu & X. Y. Chen, 2012 [6] (Ludong hillstream loach)
- Balitora meridionalis Kottelat, 1988
- Balitora mysorensis Hora, 1941 (Slender stone loach)
- Balitora nantingensis X. Y. Chen, G. H. Cui & J. X. Yang, 2005 (species inquirenda in Balitora)
- Balitora nigrocorpa V. H. Nguyễn, 2005
- Balitora nujiangensis Zhang & C. Y. Zheng, 1983
- Balitora tchangi C. Y. Zheng, 1982
- Balitora vanlani V. H. Nguyễn, 2005
- Balitora vanlongi V. H. Nguyễn, 2005
References[edit]
- ^ Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived 2016-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Balitora in FishBase. March 2024 version.
- ^ Kumkar, P., Katwate, U., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. (2016): Balitora chipkali, a new species of stone loach (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from the northern Western Ghats of India, with a note on the distribution of B. laticauda. Zootaxa, 4138 (1): 155–170.
- ^ Raghavan, R., Tharian, J., Ali, A., Jadhav, S. & Dahanukar, N. (2013): Balitora jalpalli, a new species of stone loach (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) from Silent Valley, southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 5 (5): 3921–3934.
- ^ Bhoite, S., Jadhav, S. & Dahanukar, N. (2012): Balitora laticauda, a new species of stone loach (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) from Krishna River, northern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 4 (11): 3038–3049.
- ^ Liu, S.-W., Zhu, Y., Wei, R.-f. & Chen, X.-Y. (2012): A new species of the genus Balitora (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from Guangxi, China. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 93 (3): 369-375.