Mesonoemacheilus

<i>Mesonoemacheilus</i>

Mesonoemacheilus

Genus of fishes

Mesonoemacheilus is a genus of stone loach endemic to India.

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All species are endemic to rivers draining the Western Ghats and the genus is separated from the closely-related Nemacheilus by members possessing two pairs of rostral barbels which are confluent at their bases vs. rostral barbels present but not confluent.[1]

Species

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


References

  1. [1]
    "Species profile Mesonoemacheilus herrei". Seriously Fish.
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Mesonoemacheilus in FishBase. February 2024 version.
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