Barbatula nuda | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Nemacheilidae |
Genus: | Barbatula |
Species: | B. nuda |
Binomial name | |
Barbatula nuda (Bleeker, 1864) | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Barbatula nuda is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Barbatula , which belongs to the family Nemacheilidae, the stone loaches. This loach is found in the Liao and Taizi River drainages in northern China and in northern North Korea. [3]
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Barbatula sturanyi, the Ohrid stone loach, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Barbatula, which belongs to the family Nemacheilidae, the stone loaches. This loach is endemic to te Lake Ohrid drainage basin in the Balkan Peninsula.
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Barbatula potaninorum is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Barbatula, which belongs to the family Nemacheilidae, the stone loaches. This loach is found in northern China and Inner Mongolia.
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Barbatula cobdonensis is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belongig to the family Nemacheilidae, the stone loaches. This loach is found in the lakes Khintiktig-Khol and Ak-Khol and in the Mogen-Buren River all within the drainage basin of the Kobdo River in northwestern Mongolia and the Tuva Republic in Russia. This taxon is placed with some uncertainty within the genus Barbatula as a species inquirenda, or it may be a junior synonym of B. compressirostris.