Homalopteroides smithi

Homalopteroides smithi is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Homalopteroides.[1] It can be found in the Mekong and Chao Phraya basins and Malay Peninsula.[2]

Homalopteroides smithi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Balitoridae
Genus: Homalopteroides
Species:
H. smithi
Binomial name
Homalopteroides smithi
(Hora, 1932)
Synonyms
  • Homaloptera smithi Hora, 1932
  • Homaloptera lineata Smith, 1945

The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Hugh M. Smith (1865-1941), then at the Siam Department of Fisheries, in what is now Thailand.[3]

Other common names include the Green Gecko Loach or Shi's Flatfin Loach (a direct translation of the fish's chinese name '史氏平鰭鰍').


References
  1. 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.
  2. "Homalopteroides smithi summary page". FishBase. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (a-p)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 7 January 2022.


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