Gastromyzontidae

Gastromyzontidae

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: Gastromyzontidae
Genera (18): Annamia – Beaufortia – Erromyzon – Formosania – Gastromyzon – Glaniopsis – Hypergastromyzon – Katibasia – Liniparhomaloptera – Neogastromyzon – Paraprotomyzon – Parhomaloptera – Plesiomyzon – Protomyzon – Pseudogastromyzon – Sewellia – Vanmanenia – Yaoshania

Name

• Gastromyzontidae Fowler, 1905: 477

Type genus: Gastromyzon Günther, 1874, by monotypy.

Combinations

• Gastromyzoninae Fowler, 1905: 477 [original combination, as subfamilia, correct stem is Gastromyzont– and correct spelling is Gastromyzontinae]

Synonyms

• Lepidoglanidae Jordan, 1923: 149 [correct stem is Lepidoglanid– and correct spelling is Lepidoglanididae]

Type genus: Lepidoglanis Vaillant, 1890

• Crossostominae Silas, 1953: 219 [invalid because of junior homonymy of type genus, Code art. 39; correct stem is Crossostomat– and correct spelling is Crossostomatinae]

Type genus: Crossostoma Sauvage, 1878

• Glaniopsini Silas, 1953: 259

Type genus: Glaniopsis Boulenger, 1899

• Pseudogastromyzoni Silas, 1953: 299 [correct stem is Pseudogastromyzont– and correct spelling is Pseudogastromyzontini]

Type genus: Pseudogastromyzon Nichols, 1925

• Beaufortini Chen, 1980: 207 [correct stem is Beauforti– and the correct spelling is Beaufortiini]

Type genus: Beaufortia Hora, 1932

• Parhomalopterini Chen, 1980: 207

Type genus: Parhomaloptera Vaillant, 1902

References

Primary references

• Fowler, H.W. 1905. Some fishes from Borneo. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 57: 455–523. BHL
• Jordan, D.S. 1923. A classification of fishes including families and genera as far as known. Stanford University Publications, University Series, Biological Sciences 3(2): 77–243 + i–x.
• Silas, E.G. 1953. Classification, zoogeography and evolution of the fishes of the cyprinoid families Homalopteridae and Gastromyzonidae. Records of the Indian Museum 50(2) (for 1952): 173–263, Pl. 5. Reference page. 
• Chen, Y.-Y. 1980. [Systematic studies of the family Homalopteridae of China. III. Phyletic studies of the homalopterid fishes]. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 5(2): 200–211. [In Chinese, English summary].

Additional references

• Kottelat, M. 2012. Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 26(Supplement 26): 1–199. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Yang, J., Kottelat, M., Yang, J.-X. & Chen, X.-Y. 2012. Yaoshania and Erromyzon kalotaenia, a new genus and a new species of balitorid loaches from Guangxi, China (Teleostei: Cypriniformes). Zootaxa 3586: 173–186. Preview PDF Reference page. 
• Kottelat, M. 2013. The fishes of the inland waters of southeast Asia: a catalogue and core bibiography of the fishes known to occur in freshwaters, mangroves and estuaries. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement No. 27: 1–663. PDF. Reference page. 

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