Lefua
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| Lefua echigonia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Lefua Herzenstein, 1888 |
| Type species | |
| Lefua pleskei Herzenstein, 1888
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Lefua is a genus of stone loaches native to East Asia. Members of this genus possess barbels around their mouths (usually three pairs) and nostrils (usually one pair). They generally have column-shaped bodies and are good swimmers.[1]
Species
[edit]There are currently eight recognized species in this genus:[2][1][3]
- Lefua costata (Kessler, 1876) (Eightbarbel loach, Continental eight barbeled loach)
- Lefua echigonia D. S. Jordan & R. E. Richardson, 1907 (Japanese eight barbeled loach)
- Lefua hoffmanni Herre, 1932
- Lefua nikkonis (D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1903) (ainu eight barbeled loach)
- Lefua pleskei (Herzenstein, 1888)
- Lefua sayu (Herre & S. Y. Lin, 1936)
- Lefua tokaiensis (Hosoya, Ito & Miyazaki, 2019) (tokai stream eight barbeled loach)
- Lefua torrentis (Hosoya, Ito & Miyazaki, 2018) (stream eight barbeled loach)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Nakajima, J. (2017). LOACHES OF JAPAN (Natural History and Culture) (3rd ed.). Yama-kei Publishers Co., Ltd. pp. 174–175.
- ^ Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived 2013-02-11 at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
- ^ Hosoya, K. (2019). Freshwater fish of Japan. Yama-kei Publishers Co., Ltd. pp. 210–212.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lefua". FishBase.
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