Bhavania is a small genus of loaches of the family Balitoridae.
| Bhavania | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Balitoridae |
| Genus: | Bhavania Hora, 1920 |
| Type species | |
| Platycara australis Jerdon, 1849
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Species edit
There is one species definitely assigned to this genus. The placement of B. arunachalensis within the family is uncertain.[1] It is currently included here pending further studies.
- Bhavania arunachalensis Nath, Dam, Bhutia, Dey & D. N. Das, 2007 (this species is species inquirenda and incertae sedis within Balitoridae)
- Bhavania australis (Jerdon, 1849) (Western Ghat loach)
References edit
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Bhavania in FishBase. June 2011 version.
- ^ Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived February 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.