Nemacheilus

Nemacheilus
Barred Loach (N. fasciatus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Nemacheilidae
Genus:	Nemacheilus Bleeker, 1863
Type species
Nemacheilus fasciatus Valenciennes, 1846
Synonyms
Modigliania Perugia, 1893 Pogononemacheilus Fowler 1937

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
• 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
• 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

Wikispecies has information related to Nemacheilus.

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. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Nemacheilus in FishBase. February 2024 version.
3. ^ 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.
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