Bhavania
| Bhavania | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Balitoridae |
| Genus: | Bhavania Hora, 1920 |
Bhavania is a small genus of loaches of the family Balitoridae.
Species
There is one species definitely assigned to this genus. The placement of B. arunachalensis within the family is uncertain.[1] It is currently included here pending further studies.
- Bhavania arunachalensis Nath, Dam, Bhutia, Dey & D. N. Das, 2007 (this species is species inquirenda and incertae sedis within Balitoridae)
- Bhavania australis (Jerdon, 1849) (Western Ghat loach)
References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Bhavania in FishBase. June 2011 version.
- ↑ 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.
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