''Balitora'' is a

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Balitoridae The hillstream loaches or river loaches are a family, the Balitoridae, of small fish from South, Southeast and East Asia. The family includes about 202 species. They are sometimes sold as "lizardfish" or (in Germany) "flossensaugers". Many of the ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an area ...

.Kottelat, M. (2012)
Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei).
''Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.''

Species

There are currently 20 recognized species in this genus: * ''

Balitora annamitica ''Balitora annamitica'' is a species of hill-stream loach from the Mekong River Basin The Mekong or Mekong River is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the world's twelfth longest river and the third longest in ...

Kottelat Maurice Kottelat (born 16 July 1957 in Delémont, SwitzerlandC ...

, 1988 * ''

Balitora brucei Gray's stone loach (''Balitora brucei'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Balitora''. It is endemic to India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's ...

J. E. Gray John Edward Gray, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoology, zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ...

, 1830 (Gray's stone loach) * ''

Balitora burmanica The Burmese stone loach (''Balitora burmanica'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Balitora''. It occurs in the Irrawaddy, Salween , ''Mae Nam Salawin'' ( , name_etymology = , image = Sweet_View_of_Salween_River_ ...

'' Hora, 1932 (Burmese stone loach) * ''

Balitora chipkali ''Balitora'' is a genus of fish in the family Balitoridae endemic to Asia.Kottelat, M. (2012)Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). ''Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-19 ...

'' Kumkar, U. Katwate, Raghavan & Dahanukar, 2016 (Chipkali stone loach) Kumkar, P., Katwate, U., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. (2016): ''Balitora chipkali'', a new species of stone loach (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from the northern Western Ghats of India, with a note on the distribution of ''B. laticauda''. ''Zootaxa, 4138 (1): 155–170.'' * ''

Balitora eddsi ''Balitora'' is a genus of fish in the family Balitoridae endemic to Asia.Kottelat, M. (2012)Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). ''Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-19 ...

'' Conway & Mayden, 2010 * ''

Balitora jalpalli ''Balitora'' is a genus of fish in the family Balitoridae endemic to Asia.Kottelat, M. (2012)Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). ''Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-19 ...

'' Raghavan, Tharian,

Ali ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...

, Jadhav & Dahanukar, 2013 Raghavan, R., Tharian, J., Ali, A., Jadhav, S. & Dahanukar, N. (2013)
''Balitora jalpalli'', a new species of stone loach (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) from Silent Valley, southern Western Ghats, India.
''Journal of Threatened Taxa, 5 (5): 3921–3934.'' * ''

Balitora kwangsiensis ''Balitora kwangsiensis'' is a species of hillstream loach found in Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United ...

'' ( P. W. Fang, 1930) * ''

Balitora lancangjiangensis ''Balitora lancangjiangensis'' is a species of hill-stream loach from the Mekong and Red River basins. Sources differ in distribution, but all list Yunnan (China) and Laos, and at least the International Union for Conservation of Nature also lis ...

'' ( C. Y. Zheng, 1980) * ''

Balitora laticauda ''Balitora'' is a genus of fish in the family Balitoridae endemic to Asia.Kottelat, M. (2012)Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). ''Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-19 ...

Bhoite Bhoite is a surname found amongst the Maratha caste, mainly in the state of Maharashtra in India but it also appears in Indian states bordering Maharashtra. Origin Some sources, such as ''Shri Swami Samartha'' states Bhoites are Suryavanshi cla ...

, Jadhav & Dahanukar, 2012 Bhoite, S., Jadhav, S. & Dahanukar, N. (2012)
''Balitora laticauda'', a new species of stone loach (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) from Krishna River, northern Western Ghats, India.
''Journal of Threatened Taxa, 4 (11): 3038–3049.'' * ''

Balitora longibarbata ''Balitora'' is a genus of fish in the family Balitoridae endemic to Asia.Kottelat, M. (2012)Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). ''Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-19 ...

'' ( Y. R. Chen, 1982) * '' Balitora ludongensis'' S. W. Liu & X. Y. Chen, 2012 Liu, S.-W., Zhu, Y., Wei, R.-f. & Chen, X.-Y. (2012): A new species of the genus ''Balitora'' (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from Guangxi, China. ''Environmental Biology of Fishes, 93 (3): 369-375.'' * '' Balitora meridionalis''

Kottelat Maurice Kottelat (born 16 July 1957 in Delémont, SwitzerlandC ...

, 1988 * '' Balitora mysorensis'' Hora, 1941 (Slender stone loach) * '' Balitora nantingensis'' X. Y. Chen, G. H. Cui & J. X. Yang, 2005 (''

species inquirenda In biological classification, a ''species inquirenda'' is a species of doubtful identity requiring further investigation. The use of the term in English-language biological literature dates back to at least the early nineteenth century. The term t ...

'' in ''Balitora'') *'' Balitora nigrocorpa'' Nguyen, 2005 *'' Balitora nujiangensis'' Zhang & Zheng, 1983 *''

Balitora tchangi ''Hemimyzon tchangi'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Hemimyzon ''Hemimyzon'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Balitoridae. Species There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus:Kottelat, M. (2012)Conspec ...

'' Zheng, 1982 *'' Balitora vanlani'' Nguyen, 2005 *'' Balitora vanlongi'' Nguyen, 2005

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3755282 Balitoridae Fish of Asia Taxa named by John Edward Gray