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Vanmanenia

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Vanmanenia
Vanmanenia pingchowensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Gastromyzontidae
Genus: Vanmanenia
Hora, 1932
Type species
Homalosoma stenosoma
Boulenger, 1901
Synonyms
  • Homalosoma Boulenger, 1901
  • Praeformosania P. W. Fang, 1935

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

Species

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There are currently 17 species recognized in this genus:[1]

Questionable species

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There are three species of questionable validity that FishBase recognizes but that Kottelat and the California Academy of Sciences' Catalog of Fishes (following Kottelat) consider probable junior synonyms:

References

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  1. ^ Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
  2. ^ Yi, W.-J., Zhang, E & Shen, J.-Z. (2014): Vanmanenia maculata, a new species of hillstream loach from the Chang-Jiang Basin, South China (Teleostei: Gastromyzontidae). Zootaxa, 3802 (1): 85–97.