Homatula

Homatula is a genus of stone loaches endemic to China.

Homatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Homatula
Nichols, 1925
Type species
Nemachilus potanini
Günther, 1896

Species

There are currently 14 recognized species in this genus:[1]

  • Homatula acuticephala (W. Zhou & J. C. He, 1993)
  • Homatula anguillioides (S. Q. Zhu & S. H. Wang, 1985)
  • Homatula change Endruweit, 2015 [2]
  • Homatula disparizona R. Min, J. X. Yang & X. Y. Chen, 2013 [3]
  • Homatula erhaiensis (S. Q. Zhu & W. X. Cao, 1988)
  • Homatula laxiclathra J. H. Gu & E. Zhang, 2012 [4]
  • Homatula longidorsalis (J. X. Yang, Y. R. Chen & Kottelat, 1994)
  • Homatula nanpanjiangensis (R. Min, X. Y. Chen & J. X. Yang, 2010)
  • Homatula oligolepis (W. X. Cao & S. Q. Zhu, 1989)
  • Homatula potanini (Günther, 1896)
  • Homatula pycnolepis Y. T. Hu & E. Zhang, 2010
  • Homatula variegata (Dabry de Thiersant, 1874)
  • Homatula wujiangensis R. H. Ding & Q. X. Deng, 1990
  • Homatula wuliangensis R. Min, J. X. Yang & X. Y. Chen, 2012 [5]

References
  1. Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived 2013-02-11 at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
  2. Endruweit, M. (2015): Homatula change, a new nemacheilid loach from the upper Black River basin in Yunnan, China (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 26 (1): 65-72.
  3. Min, R., Yang, J.-X. & Chen, X.-Y. (2013): Homatula disparizona, a new species of loach from the Red River drainage in China (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 23 (4) [2012]: 351-355.
  4. Gu, J.-H. & Zhang, E. (2012): Homatula laxiclathra (Teleostei: Balitoridae), a new species of nemacheiline loach from the Yellow River drainage in Shaanxi Province, northern China. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 94 (4): 591-599.
  5. Min, R., Yang, J.-X. & Chen, X.-Y. (2012): Homatula wuliangensis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae), a new loach from Yunnan, China. Zootaxa, 3586: 313–318.


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