Ellopostoma is a small genus of loaches native to Southeast Asia.[1] This is the only genus in the family Ellopostomatidae, having been confirmed as being in a family of its own by M. Kottelat in his review of the loaches in 2012.[2]
| Ellopostoma | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Ellopostomatidae Bohlen & Šlechtová, 2009 |
| Genus: | Ellopostoma Vaillant, 1902 |
| Type species | |
| Aperioptus megalomycter Vaillant, 1902
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Species
editThe currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- Ellopostoma megalomycter (Vaillant, 1902)
- Ellopostoma mystax H. H. Tan & K. K. P. Lim, 2002 (enigmatic loach)
References
edit- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Ellopostoma". FishBase. December 2012 version.
- ^ Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived February 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
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