Balitoridae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cobitoidei
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cobitoidei

Familia: Balitoridae
Genera: Balitora – Balitoropsis – Bhavania – Cryptotora – Ghatsa – Hemimyzon – Homaloptera – Homalopteroides – Homalopterula – Jinshaia – Lepturichthys – Metahomaloptera – Neohomaloptera – Paraprotomyzon – Pseudohomaloptera – Sinogastromyzon – Travancoria

Name

Balitoridae Swainson, 1839

Type genus: Balitora Gray, 1830

Synonyms

References

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. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.1.2. Reference page.
Randall, Z.S. & Riggs, P.A. 2015: Revision of the hillstream lizard loaches, genus Balitoropsis (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae). Zootaxa 3962(1): 206–225. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3962.1.13. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Swainson, W.J. 1839. The natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals. Spottiswoode & Co.: London. vol. 2: i–vi + 1–448. BHL Reference page.

Links

Balitoridae and its species in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Genera of Balitoridae (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Plattschmerlen
English: Hillstream loach
eesti: Trullinglased
հայերեն: Բալիտորաձկներ
한국어: 종개과
lietuvių: Plokštieji vijūnai
Nederlands: Steenkruipers
polski: Przylgowate
ไทย: ปลาค้อ, ปลาผีเสื้อติดหิน, ปลาจิ้งจก, ปลาซัคเกอร์ผีเสื้อ