Beaufortia (fish)

Beaufortia is a genus of gastromyzontid loaches from China and mainland Southeast Asia.

Beaufortia
Beaufortia kweichowensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Gastromyzontidae
Genus: Beaufortia
Hora, 1932
Type species
Gastromyzon leveretti
Nichols & Pope, 1927
Species

14, see text

Species

There are currently 16 species recognized in this genus though the generic placement of some and validity of others are questionable:[1]

References

  1. Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived February 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.


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