Erromyzon
Erromyzon is a genus of fish in the family Gastromyzontidae endemic to China and Vietnam.[1]
| Erromyzon | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Gastromyzontidae |
| Genus: | Erromyzon Kottelat, 2004 |
| Type species | |
| Protomyzon sinensis Chen, 1980 | |
Species
There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus:
- Erromyzon compactus Kottelat, 2004
- Erromyzon damingshanensis L. H. Xiu & J. Yang, 2017[2]
- Erromyzon kalotaenia J. Yang, Kottelat, J. X. Yang & X. Y. Chen, 2012[3]
- Erromyzon sinensis (Y. Y. Chen, 1980)
- Erromyzon yangi Neely, Conway & Mayden, 2007
References
- 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.
- Xiu, L. & Yang, J. (2017): Erromyzon damingshanensis, a new sucker loach (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Gastromyzontidae) from the Pearl River drainage of Guangxi, China. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 100 (8): 893–898.
- Yang, J., Kottelat, M., Yang, J.-X. & Chen, X.-Y. (2012): Yaoshania and Erromyzon kalotaenia, a new genus and a new species of balitorid loaches from Guangxi, China (Teleostei: Cypriniformes). Zootaxa, 3586: 173–186.
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