Ellopostoma

Ellopostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Cypriniformes
Family:Ellopostomatidae
Bohlen & Šlechtová, 2009
Genus:Ellopostoma
Vaillant, 1902
Type species
Aperioptus megalomycter
Vaillant, 1902

Ellopostoma is a small genus of loaches native to Southeast Asia.[1] This is the only genus in the family Ellopostomatidae, having been confirmed as being in a family of its own by M. Kottelat in his review of the loaches in 2012.[2]

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Ellopostoma in FishBase. December 2012 version.
  2. ↑ 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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