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

N. jaklesii

Nemacheilus is a genus of stone loaches native to Asia.

Species

These are the currently recognized species in this genus:^[1]

• Nemacheilus anguilla Annandale, 1919 (eel loach)
• Nemacheilus arenicolus Kottelat, 1998
• Nemacheilus argyrogaster Kottelat, 2021
• Nemacheilus banar Freyhof & Serov, 2001
• Nemacheilus binotatus H. M. Smith, 1933

• Nemacheilus cacao Bohlen, Kottelat and Šlechtová, 2022^[2]

• Nemacheilus chrysolaimos (Valenciennes, 1846)
• Nemacheilus cleopatra Freyhof & Serov, 2001
• Nemacheilus corica (F. Hamilton, 1822) (incertae sedis, most likely in this genus)
• Nemacheilus elegantissimus P. K. Chin & Samat, 1992
• Nemacheilus fasciatus (Valenciennes, 1846) (Barred loach)
• Nemacheilus kaimurensis Husain & Tilak, 1998 (incertae sedis, most likely in this genus)
• Nemacheilus kapuasensis Kottelat, 1984
• Nemacheilus longipectoralis Popta, 1905
• Nemacheilus longipinnis C. G. E. Ahl, 1922
• Nemacheilus longistriatus Kottelat, 1990
• Nemacheilus marang Hadiaty & Kottelat, 2010
• Nemacheilus masyae H. M. Smith, 1933 (Arrow loach)
• Nemacheilus monilis Hora, 1921 (incertae sedis, most likely in this genus)
• Nemacheilus nandingensis Zhu & Wang, 1985
• Nemacheilus olivaceus Boulenger, 1894
• Nemacheilus ornatus Kottelat, 1990
• Nemacheilus pallidus Kottelat, 1990
• Nemacheilus papillos H. H. Tan & Kottelat, 2009
• Nemacheilus paucimaculatus Bohlen & Šlechtová, 2011^[3]
• Nemacheilus pezidion Kottelat, 2022
• Nemacheilus pfeifferae (Bleeker, 1853)
• Nemacheilus platiceps Kottelat, 1990
• Nemacheilus pullus Kottelat, 2023^[4]
• Nemacheilus rueppelli (Sykes, 1839) (Mongoose loach)
• Nemacheilus saravacensis Boulenger, 1894
• Nemacheilus spiniferus Kottelat, 1984
• Nemacheilus stigmofasciatus Arunachalam & Muralidharan, 2009 (incertae sedis, most likely in this genus)
• Nemacheilus tebo Hadiaty & Kottelat, 2009
• Nemacheilus troglocataractus Kottelat & Géry, 1989 (Blind cave loach)
• Nemacheilus tuberigum Hadiaty & Siebert, 2001
• Nemacheilus zonatus Page, Pfeiffer, Suksri, Randall & Boyd, 2020^[5]

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Nemacheilus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
2. Jörg Bohlen, Maurice Kottelat and Vendula Šlechtová. 2022. Nemacheilus cacao, A New Species of Loach (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from the middle Mekong Basin in Laos. RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY. 70; 511–518.
3. 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.
4. Maurice Kottelat. 2023. Nemacheilus pullus, A New Species of Loach from central Laos (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY. 71; 106–115.
5. 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.