Balitoropsis also known as the lizard loaches is a genus of hillstream loaches native to eastern Asia.
| Balitoropsis | |
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| Balitoropsis zollingeri | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Balitoridae |
| Genus: | Balitoropsis H. M. Smith, 1945[1] |
| Type species | |
| Balitoropsis bartschi H. M. Smith 1945
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Species edit
There are currently 2 recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Balitoropsis ophiolepis (Bleeker, 1853) (slender lizard loach)
- Balitoropsis zollingeri (Bleeker, 1853) (black lizard loach)
Species which were once classified in this genus,[3] but are now classified in other genera[4] include:
- In Homalopteroides Fowler, 1905:
- Homalopteroides stephensoni (Hora, 1923)
- Homalopteroides yuwonoi (Kottelat, 1998)
- In Pseudohomaloptera Silas, 1953:
- Pseudohomaloptera batek (Tan, 2009)
- Pseudohomaloptera leonardi (Hora, 1941)
- Pseudohomaloptera sexmaculata (Fowler, 1934)
- Pseudohomaloptera tatereganii (Popta, 1905)
- Pseudohomaloptera vulgaris (Kottelat & Chu, 1998)
- Pseudohomaloptera yunnanensis (Chen, 1978)
References edit
- ^ Smith, Hugh M. (1945). "Balitoropsis, new genus". The Fresh-water Fishes of Siam, or Thailand. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. Vol. 188. pp. 278–280. doi:10.5479/si.03629236.188.1.
- ^ Randall, Z.S. & Riggs, P.A. (2015). "Revision of the hillstream lizard loaches, genus Balitoropsis (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3962 (1): 206–225. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3962.1.13. PMID 26249387.
- ^ Kottelat, Maurice (2012). "Balitoropsis Smith, 1945". Conspectus Cobitidum: An Inventory of the Loaches of the World (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology: Supplement. Vol. 26. Singapore: Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore. pp. 45–47.
- ^ Randall, Zachary S.; Page, Lawrence M. (2015). "On the paraphyly of Homaloptera (Teleostei: Balitoridae) and description of a new genus of hillstream loaches from the Western Ghats of India". Zootaxa. 3926 (1): 57–86. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3926.1.2. PMID 25781768.
Further reading edit
- Kottelat, Maurice (2013). "Balitoropsis Smith, 1945". The Fishes of the Inland Waters of Southeast Asia: A Catalogue and Core Bibliography of the Fishes Known to Occur in Freshwaters, Mangroves and Estuaries. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology: Supplement. Vol. 27. Singapore: Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore. p. 186.[permanent dead link]