Ellopostoma

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]

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

Species

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

  • Ellopostoma megalomycter (Vaillant, 1902)
  • Ellopostoma mystax H. H. Tan & K. K. P. Lim, 2002 (enigmatic loach)
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References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, 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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