Balitora

Balitora is a genus of fish in the family Balitoridae endemic to Asia.^[1]

Species[]

There are currently 20 recognized species in this genus:

Balitora annamitica Kottelat, 1988
Balitora brucei J. E. Gray, 1830 (Gray's stone loach)
Balitora burmanica Hora, 1932 (Burmese stone loach)
, , Raghavan & , 2016 (Chipkali stone loach) ^[2]
& , 2010
Raghavan, , , & , 2013 ^[3]
Balitora kwangsiensis (, 1930)
Balitora lancangjiangensis (, 1980)
, & , 2012 ^[4]
(, 1982)
& X. Y. Chen, 2012 ^[5]
Balitora meridionalis Kottelat, 1988
Balitora mysorensis Hora, 1941 (Slender stone loach)
Balitora nantingensis X. Y. Chen, & J. X. Yang, 2005 (species inquirenda in Balitora)
Nguyen, 2005
Balitora nujiangensis Zhang & Zheng, 1983
Balitora tchangi Zheng, 1982
Nguyen, 2005
Nguyen, 2005

^ Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived 2016-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.