''Liniparhomaloptera'' is a

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fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...

in the

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Gastromyzontidae The Gastromyzontidae are a family of loaches native to China and Southeast Asia, where typically found in streams and rivers with a fast current. The family includes about 137 species in eighteen genera. This family was resurrected by M. Kottel ...

found in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

and

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.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 5 recognized species in this genus: * '' Liniparhomaloptera disparis'' ( S. Y. Lin, 1934) * '' Liniparhomaloptera macrostoma'' T. J. Wu, L. H. Xiu & J. Yang, 2016 Wu, T., Xiu, L. & Yang, J. (2016)
''Liniparhomaloptera macrostoma'', a new hillstream loach from Hunan Province, China (Teleostei: Gastromyzontidae).
''Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27 (3): 275-282.'' * '' Liniparhomaloptera monoloba'' ( Đ. Y. Mai, 1978) * ''

Liniparhomaloptera obtusirostris ''Liniparhomaloptera'' is a genus of fish in the family Gastromyzontidae found in China and Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the ...

'' C. Y. Zheng & Y. Y. Chen, 1980 * ''

Liniparhomaloptera qiongzhongensis ''Liniparhomaloptera'' is a genus of fish in the family Gastromyzontidae found in China and Vietnam.Kottelat, M. (2012)Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). ''Raffles Bulletin of Zo ...

'' C. Y. Zheng & Y. Y. Chen, 1980

References

Gastromyzontidae Fish of Asia Freshwater fish genera {{Cypriniformes-stub