Petruichthys
Appearance
Petruichthys | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Nemacheilidae |
Genus: | Petruichthys Menon, 1987 |
Type species | |
Nemachilus brevis Boulenger, 1893
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Petruichthys is a genus of stone loaches native to eastern Asia. The genus is not universally accepted as valid and the two species placed there have been placed in other genera.
Species
[edit]There are currently two recognized species in this genus, though one is not as yet assignable to this genus with complete certainty:[1]
- Petruichthys brevis (Boulenger, 1893)
- Petruichthys salmonides (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1911) (species inquirenda and incertae sedis, probably in this genus)
References
[edit]- ^ 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.