Mesonoemacheilus

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Mesonoemacheilus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Mesonoemacheilus
Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1982

Mesonoemacheilus is a genus of stone loach endemic to India.

All species are endemic to rivers draining the Western Ghats and the genus is separated from the closely-related Nemacheilus by members possessing two pairs of rostral barbels which are confluent at their bases vs. rostral barbels present but not confluent. [1]

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus: [2] [3]


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References

  1. "Species profile Mesonoemacheilus herrei". Seriously Fish.
  2. 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.
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Mesonoemacheilus in FishBase . February 2024 version.