Paracanthocobitis

Paracanthocobitis is a genus, or subgenus, of freshwater fish in the family Nemacheilidae. This genus is known from the Indus basin in Pakistan to the Mekong basin of Cambodia and Laos The type species is Paracanthocobitis zonalternans. Some authorities treat this as a subgenus of Acanthocobitis and Fishbase only includes the five species described in 2015 by Singer & Plant, meaning that P. (A). zonalternans is not the type species.[1]

Paracanthocobitis
Acanthocobitis (Paracanthocobitis) zonalternans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Acanthocobitis
Subgenus: Paracanthocobitis
S. Grant, 2007
Type species
see text

Species

SInger and Page recognised 14 species in this genus:

Fishbase only recognises 5, i.e. P. abutwebi, P. adelaidae, P. canicula, P. linypha and P. maekhlongensis.[1]

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References

  1. Rainer Froese; Daniel Pauly, eds. (2017). "Fish Identification =- Species in Paracanthocobitis". Fishbase. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  2. Singer, R.A. & Page, L.M. (2015): Revision of the Zipper Loaches, Acanthocobitis and Paracanthocobitis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae), with Descriptions of Five New Species. Copeia, 103 (2): 378–401.
  3. Kottelat, M. (2012): Acanthocobitis pictilis, a new species of loach from Myanmar and Thailand (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 3327: 45–52.


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