Speonectes tiomanensis
Speonectes tiomanensis is a species of stone loach that is endemic to Malaysia and only known from a cave on Tioman Island. This fish reaches a length of 5.8 centimetres (2.3 in) SL.[3] This species is the only known member of its genus, but it was formerly included in Sundoreonectes. It is the only cavefish known from Malaysia.[4]
| Speonectes tiomanensis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Speonectes |
| Species: | S. tiomanensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Speonectes tiomanensis | |
| Synonyms | |
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Sundoreonectes tiomanensis Kottelat, 1990 | |
References
- Ahmad, A.B. (2020). "Sundoreonectes tiomanensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- 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.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Sundoreonectes tiomanensis" in FishBase. December 2012 version.
- Romero, A., editor (2001). The Biology of Hypogean Fishes. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. ISBN 978-1402000768
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