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Serpenticobitis

Serpenticobitis, popularly known as serpent loaches, is a small genus of loaches found in the Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia. It is the only genus in the family Serpenticobitidae.

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Serpenticobitis
Serpenticobitis cingulata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Serpenticobitidae
Kottelat, 20122
Genus: Serpenticobitis
T. R. Roberts, 19971
Type species
Serpenticobitis octozona
T. R. Roberts, 19971

Serpenticobitis, popularly known as serpent loaches, is a small genus of loaches found in the Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia.3 It is the only genus in the family Serpenticobitidae.4

Species

Serpenticobitis contains the following species:5

  • Serpenticobitis cingulata T. R. Roberts, 1997
  • Serpenticobitis octozona T. R. Roberts, 1997
  • Serpenticobitis zonata Kottelat, 1998
References

References

  1. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Serpenticobitidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
  2. Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
  3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Serpenticobitis". FishBase. December 2012 version.
  4. Kottelat, M. (2012). "Conspectus_cobitidum.pdf Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement No. 26: 1–199.
  5. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Serpenticobitis". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 December 2024.