Pseudohomaloptera

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Pseudohomaloptera
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Pseudohomaloptera leonardi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Balitoridae
Genus: Pseudohomaloptera
Silas, 1953
Type species
Homaloptera tatereganii
Popta 1905

Pseudohomaloptera is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Balitoridae.

Species

There are currently 6 recognized species in this genus: [1]

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References

  1. Randall, Z.S. & Page, L.M. (2015): On the paraphyly of Homaloptera (Teleostei: Balitoridae) and description of a new genus of hillstream loaches from the Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa, 3926 (1): 57–86.
  2. Randall, Z. S.; Somarriba, G. A.; Tongnunui, S.; & Page, L. M. (2022): Review of the spotted lizard loaches, Pseudohomaloptera (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) with a re-description of Pseudohomaloptera sexmaculata and description of a new species from Sumatra. Journal of Fish Biology, 1–16.