Vanmanenia is a genus of loaches from China and mainland Southeast Asia.

Vanmanenia
Vanmanenia pingchowensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Gastromyzontidae
Genus: Vanmanenia
Hora, 1932
Type species
Homalosoma stenosoma
Boulenger, 1901
Synonyms
  • Homalosoma Boulenger, 1901
  • Praeformosania P. W. Fang, 1935

Species edit

There are currently 17 species recognized in this genus:[1]

Questionable species edit

There are three species of questionable validity that FishBase recognizes but that Kottelat and the California Academy of Sciences' Catalog of Fishes (following Kottelat) consider probable junior synonyms:

References edit

  1. ^ Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
  2. ^ Yi, W.-J., Zhang, E & Shen, J.-Z. (2014): Vanmanenia maculata, a new species of hillstream loach from the Chang-Jiang Basin, South China (Teleostei: Gastromyzontidae). Zootaxa, 3802 (1): 85–97.