Homalopteroides Weberi
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''Homalopteroides weberi'' is a
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Homalopteroides ''Homalopteroides'' is a genus of hillstream loaches native to Southeast Asia. Species There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus:Randall, Z.S. & Page, L.M. (2015): On the paraphyly of ''Homaloptera'' (Teleostei: Balitoridae) and de ...
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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 ...
.Randall, Z.S. & Page, L.M. (2015): On the paraphyly of ''Homaloptera'' (Teleostei: Balitoridae) and description of a new genus of hillstream loaches from the Western Ghats of India. ''Zootaxa, 3926 (1): 57–86.'' It is found in west
Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...
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Balitoridae Fish described in 1932 {{Balitoridae-stub