Nemacheilus is a genus of stone loaches native to Asia.
| Nemacheilus | |
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| Barred Loach (N. fasciatus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Nemacheilus Bleeker, 1863 |
| Type species | |
| Nemacheilus fasciatus Valenciennes, 1846
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Species
editThere 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
- Nemacheilus papillos 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
- Nemacheilus selangoricus 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
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Wikispecies has information related to Nemacheilus.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Nemacheilus". FishBase. February 2024 version.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Page, Lawrence M.; Pfeiffer, John M.; Suksri, Siriwan; Randall, Zachary S.; Boyd, David A. (2020). "Variation in the Arrow Loach, Nemacheilus masyae (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae), in Mainland Southeast Asia with Description of a New Species". Copeia. 108 (2): 392–402. doi:10.1643/CI-19-305. ISSN 0045-8511.
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