Crossocheilus
Crossocheilus, also known as the "algae eaters", is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is distributed in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in Asia.[1] These fish occur in several types of habitat, often fast-flowing rivers with rocky bottoms.[2]
Two fish of the Crossocheilus genus resting on a rock.
| Crossocheilus | |
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| Siamese algae eater (Crossocheilus oblongus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Labeoninae |
| Genus: | Crossocheilus Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1823 |
| Type species | |
| Crossocheilus oblongus Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1823 | |
| Synonyms | |
Species
There are currently 17 recognized species in this genus:
- Crossocheilus atrilimes Kottelat, 2000
- Crossocheilus burmanicus Hora, 1936
- Crossocheilus caudomaculatus (Battalgil, 1942) (Antakya minnow)
- Crossocheilus cobitis (Bleeker, 1854)
- Crossocheilus diplochilus (Heckel, 1838)
- Crossocheilus elegans Kottelat & H. H. Tan, 2011 [2]
- Crossocheilus gnathopogon M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1916
- Crossocheilus klatti (Kosswig, 1950)
- Crossocheilus langei Bleeker, 1860
- Crossocheilus latius (Hamilton, 1822)
- Crossocheilus microstoma Ciccotto & Page, 2017
- Crossocheilus nigriloba Popta, 1904
- Crossocheilus oblongus Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1823 (Siamese algae eater)
- Crossocheilus obscurus H. H. Tan & Kottelat, 2009 [3]
- Crossocheilus periyarensis Menon & Jacob, 1996
- Crossocheilus reticulatus (Fowler, 1934)
References
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- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Crossocheilus in FishBase. January 2016 version.
- Kottelat, M. & Tan, H.H. (2011): Crossocheilus elegans, a new species of fish from northern Borneo (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 59 (2): 195-199.
- Tan, H.H. & Kottelat, M. (2009): The fishes of the Batang Hari drainage, Sumatra, with description of six new species. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 20 (1): 13-69.
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