Nemacheilus

Nemacheilus
	Barred Loach (N. fasciatus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Nemacheilidae
Genus:	Nemacheilus; Bleeker, 1863
Type species
	Nemacheilus fasciatus; Valenciennes, 1846
Synonyms
	Modigliania Perugia, 1893; Pogononemacheilus Fowler 1937;

Nemacheilus is a genus of stone loaches native to Asia.

Species

There are currently 72 recognized species in this genus:^[1]

Nemacheilus anguilla Annandale, 1919 (eel loach)
Nemacheilus masyae Smith, 1933
Nemacheilus arenicolus Kottelat, 1998
Nemacheilus banar Freyhof & Serov, 2001
Nemacheilus binotatus H. M. Smith, 1933
Nemacheilus triangularis Day, 1865
Nemacheilus chrysolaimos (Valenciennes, 1846)
Nemacheilus cleopatra Freyhof & Serov, 2001
Nemacheilus menoni Zacharias & Minimol, 1999
Nemacheilus lactogeneus Roberts, 1989
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 guentheri Day, 1867
Nemacheilus fasciatus (Valenciennes, 1846) (Barred loach)
Nemacheilus inglisi Hora, 1935
Nemacheilus jaklesii (Bleeker, 1852) (species inquirenda in this genus)
Nemacheilus petrubanarescui Menon, 1984
Nemacheilus kaimurensis Husain & Tilak, 1998 (incertae sedis, most likely in this genus)
Nemacheilus kapuasensis Kottelat, 1984
Nemacheilus pulchellus Day, 1873
Nemacheilus keralensis (Rita, Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1978) (Kerala loach)
Nemacheilus longipectoralis Popta, 1905
Nemacheilus longipinnis C. G. E. Ahl, 1922
Nemacheilus longistriatus Kottelat, 1990
Noemacheilus fowleri Menon, 1987
Nemacheilus argyrogaster Kottelat, 2021
Nemacheilus lunanensis Li & Xia, 1987
Nemacheilus wuweiensis Li & Chang, 1974
Nemacheilus marang Hadiaty & Kottelat, 2010
Nemacheilus masyai H. M. Smith, 1933 (Arrow loach)
Nemacheilus monilis Hora, 1921 (incertae sedis, most likely in this genus)
Nemacheilus olivaceus Boulenger, 1894
Nemacheilus periyarensis Madhusoodana Kurup & Radhakrishnan, 2005
Nemacheilus ornatus Kottelat, 1990
Nemacheilus oxianus Kessler, 1877 (Amu-Darya stone loach)
Nemacheilus bertini Fang, 1941
Nemacheilus djaggasteensis Rendahl, 1922
Nemacheilus huapingensis Wu & Wu, 1992
Nemacheilus minutus Li, 1966
Nemacheilus bellibarus Tchang, Yueh & Hwang, 1963
Nemacheilus pallidus Kottelat, 1990
Nemacheilus papillos H. H. Tan & Kottelat, 2009
Nemacheilus terekensis Gratzianov, 1907
Nemachilus bipartitus Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874
Nemacheilus papillosus (Perugia, 1893) (species inquirenda in this genus)
Nemacheilus paucimaculatus Bohlen & Šlechtová, 2011^[2]
Nemacheilus pfeifferae (Bleeker, 1853)
Nemacheilus platiceps Kottelat, 1990
Nemacheilus rueppelli (Sykes, 1839) (Mongoose loach)
Nemacheilus saravacensis Boulenger, 1894
Noemacheilus sikkimensis Mani, 1974
Nemachilus cueljuensis Anikin, 1905
Nemacheilus cheni Herre & Lin, 1936
Nemacheilus selangoricus Duncker, 1904 (Grey-banded loach)
Nemacheilus shehensis Menon, 1987
Nemacheilus shuangjiangensis (S. Q. Zhu & S. H. Wang, 1985)
Nemachilus dixoni Fowler, 1899
Nemacheilus singhi (Menon, 1987)
Nemacheilus spiniferus Kottelat, 1984
Nemacheilus stigmofasciatus Arunachalam & Muralidharan, 2009 (incertae sedis, most likely in this genus)
Nemacheilus zamegacephalus Zhao, 1985
Nemacheilus blythii Day, 1870
Nemacheilus subfusca (McClelland, 1839)
Nemacheilus tebo Hadiaty & Kottelat, 2009
Nemacheilus flavus Berg, 1905
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^[3]
Nemacheilus cacao Bohlen, Kottelat & Šlechtová, 2022
Nemacheilus pezidion

Kottelat, 2022

References

^ 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.
^ 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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[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] 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.

[3] 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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