Vaillantella

Vaillantella, the long-fin loaches, is a small genus of loaches found in Southeast Asia. This genus is the only member of the family Vaillantellidae having been confirmed as such by M. Kottelat in his review of the loaches in 2012.[1]

Vaillantella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Vaillantellidae
Nalbant & Bănărescu, 1977
Genus: Vaillantella
Fowler, 1905
Type species
Nemacheilus euepipterus
Vaillant, 1902

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus:[2]

References

  1. 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.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Vaillantella in FishBase. December 2012 version.


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