Indoreonectes is a genus of stone loaches native to the Western Ghats in India.
| Indoreonectes | |
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| Indoreonectes evezardi from the cave-adapted population | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Indoreonectes Rita & Nalbant, 1978 |
| Type species | |
| Oreonectes (Indoreonectes) keralensis Rita, Bănărescu & Nalbant 1978
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Species
editThere are possibly four species in this genus,[1] though FishBase only recognizes one:[2]
- Indoreonectes evezardi (F. Day, 1872)
- Indoreonectes neeleshi Kumkar, Pise, Gorule, Verma & Kalous, 2021[3]
- Indoreonectes rajeevi Kumkar, Pise, Gorule, Verma & Kalous, 2021[3]
- Indoreonectes telanganaensis Prasad, C. Srinivasulu, A. Srinivasulu, Anoop & Dahanukar, 2020[4]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Indoreonectes". FishBase. February 2024 version.
- ^ a b Kumkar, Pradeep; Pise, Manoj; Gorule, Pankaj; Verma, Chandani; Kalous, Lukáš (16 August 2021). "Two new species of the hillstream loach genus Indoreonectes from the northern Western Ghats of India (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)". Vertebrate Zoology. 71: 517–533. doi:10.3897/vz.71.e62814.
- ^ Prasad, Kante Krishna; Srinivasulu, Chelmala; Srinivasulu, Aditya; Anoop, V.K.; Dahanukar, Neelesh (2020-11-13). "Indoreonectes telanganaensis, a new species of loach (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from the Godavari Basin of India". Zootaxa. 4878 (2): 335–348. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.7. ISSN 1175-5334.
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