Bhavania

Bhavania
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Cypriniformes
Family:Balitoridae
Genus:Bhavania
Hora, 1920
Type species
Platycara australis
Jerdon, 1849

Bhavania is a small genus of loaches of the family Balitoridae.

Species

There is one species definitely assigned to this genus. The placement of B. arunachalensis within the family is uncertain.[1] It is currently included here pending further studies.

  • Bhavania arunachalensis Nath, Dam, Bhutia, Dey & D. N. Das, 2007 (this species is species inquirenda and incertae sedis within Balitoridae)
  • Bhavania australis (Jerdon, 1849) (Western Ghat loach)

References

  1. Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived February 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.


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