Erromyzon

Genus of fishes

Erromyzon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Gastromyzontidae
Genus: Erromyzon
Kottelat, 2004
Type species
Protomyzon sinensis
Chen, 1980

Erromyzon is a genus of fish in the family Gastromyzontidae endemic to China and Vietnam.[1]

Species

There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus:

  • Erromyzon compactus Kottelat, 2004
  • Erromyzon damingshanensis L. H. Xiu & J. Yang, 2017[2]
  • Erromyzon kalotaenia J. Yang, Kottelat, J. X. Yang & X. Y. Chen, 2012[3]
  • Erromyzon sinensis (Y. Y. Chen, 1980)
  • Erromyzon yangi Neely, Conway & Mayden, 2007

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Xiu, L. & Yang, J. (2017): Erromyzon damingshanensis, a new sucker loach (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Gastromyzontidae) from the Pearl River drainage of Guangxi, China. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 100 (8): 893–898.
  3. ^ 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.
Taxon identifiers
Erromyzon


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