Homatula

Homatula
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Nemacheilidae
Genus:	Homatula Nichols, 1925
Type species
Nemachilus potanini Günther, 1896 [1]

Homatula is a genus of stone loaches endemic to China.

Species

These are the currently recognized species in this genus: ^{[2] [3]}

• Homatula acuticephala (W. Zhou & J. C. He, 1993)
• Homatula anguillioides (S. Q. Zhu & S. H. Wang, 1985)
• Homatula anteridorsalis Li, Che & Zhou, 2019
• Homatula berezowskii (Günther, 1896)
• Homatula change Endruweit, 2015 ^[4]
• Homatula coccinocola Endruweit, Min & Yang, 2018
• Homatula cryptoclathrata Li, Che & Zhou, 2019
• Homatula disparizona R. Min, J. X. Yang & X. Y. Chen, 2013 ^[5]
• Homatula dotui Nguyen, Wu, Cao & Zhang, 2021
• Homatula erhaiensis (S. Q. Zhu & W. X. Cao, 1988)
• Homatula geminusclathrata Li, Yang, Guo & Zhou, 2022
• Homatula guanheensis Zhou, Ma, Wang, Tang, Meng & Nie, 2021
• Homatula laxiclathra J. H. Gu & E. Zhang, 2012 ^[6]
• Homatula longibarbata Li, Yang, Guo & Zhou, 2022
• Homatula longidorsalis (J. X. Yang, Y. R. Chen & Kottelat, 1994)
• Homatula microcephala Li, Yang, Guo & Zhou, 2022
• Homatula nanpanjiangensis (R. Min, X. Y. Chen & J. X. Yang, 2010)
• Homatula nigra Li, Che & Zhou, 2019
• Homatula oligolepis (W. X. Cao & S. Q. Zhu, 1989)
• Homatula potanini (Günther, 1896)
• Homatula pycnolepis Y. T. Hu & E. Zhang, 2010
• Homatula robusta Min, Zhao, Shi & Yang, 2022
• Homatula tigris Che, Dao, Chen, Pan, Hua, Liang & Wang, 2023
• Homatula variegata (Dabry de Thiersant, 1874)
• Homatula wenshanensis C. Li, H. Yang, W. Li & T. Liu, 2017
• Homatula wujiangensis R. H. Ding & Q. X. Deng, 1990
• Homatula wuliangensis R. Min, J. X. Yang & X. Y. Chen, 2012 ^[7]
• Homatula gelao Gui-Bang Xiao, Qi-Wei Guo, Liang Cao, Jia Lin, Wei-Xi Deng, Qi-Qi Xiao, Lin Zhou, Hao-Ran Zhang, and Ding-Zhi Fang (2025)

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Nemacheilidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 4 December 2024.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Homatula". FishBase . February 2024 version.
3. Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived 2013-02-11 at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
4. Endruweit, M. (2015): Homatula change, a new nemacheilid loach from the upper Black River basin in Yunnan, China (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 26 (1): 65-72.
5. Min, R., Yang, J.-X. & Chen, X.-Y. (2013): Homatula disparizona, a new species of loach from the Red River drainage in China (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 23 (4) [2012]: 351-355.
6. Gu, J.-H. & Zhang, E. (2012): Homatula laxiclathra (Teleostei: Balitoridae), a new species of nemacheiline loach from the Yellow River drainage in Shaanxi Province, northern China. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 94 (4): 591-599.
7. Min, R., Yang, J.-X. & Chen, X.-Y. (2012): Homatula wuliangensis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae), a new loach from Yunnan, China. Zootaxa, 3586: 313–318.