Pseudogastromyzon

Pseudogastromyzon is a genus of gastromyzontid loaches from fast-flowing streams and rivers in China and Vietnam.

Pseudogastromyzon
Pseudogastromyzon fasciatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Gastromyzontidae
Genus: Pseudogastromyzon
Nichols, 1925
Type species
Hemimyzon zebroidus = Pseudogastromyzon fasciatus
Nichols, 1925
Synonyms

Labigastromyzon Tang & Chen, 1996

Species

There are currently nine recognized species in this genus:[1]

  • Pseudogastromyzon changtingensis Y. S. Liang, 1942
  • Pseudogastromyzon cheni Y. S. Liang, 1942
  • Pseudogastromyzon fangi (Nichols, 1931)
  • Pseudogastromyzon fasciatus (Sauvage, 1878)
  • Pseudogastromyzon laticeps Yi-Yu Chen & C. Y. Zheng, 1980
  • Pseudogastromyzon lianjiangensis C. Y. Zheng, 1981
  • Pseudogastromyzon meihuashanensis S. Q. Li, 1998
  • Pseudogastromyzon myersi Herre, 1932 (Sucker-belly loach)
  • Pseudogastromyzon peristictus C. Y. Zheng & J. P. Li, 1986

References

  1. 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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