Indoreonectes
Indoreonectes evezardi from the cave-adapted population
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

Indoreonectes is a genus of stone loaches native to the Western Ghats in India.

Species

There are currently five recognized species in this genus:[1][2][3]

  • Indoreonectes evezardi (F. Day, 1872)
  • Indoreonectes keralensis (Rita & Nalbant, 1978)
  • Indoreonectes neeleshi Kumkar, Pise, Gorule, Verma & Kalous, 2021
  • Indoreonectes rajeevi Kumkar, Pise, Gorule, Verma & Kalous, 2021
  • Indoreonectes telanganaensis Prasad, C. Srinivasulu, A. Srinivasulu, Anoop & Dahanukar, 2020

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. 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.
  3. 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.


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