Claea
| Claea | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Claea Kottelat, 2011 |
| Synonyms | |
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Oreias Sauvage, 1874 | |
Claea is a genus of stone loaches.
Before recent expansion, it was formerly a monotypic genus.[1] Other former members; C. sonlaensis is now the only species in Haotula and C. trilineatus is now in Schistura as trilineata.[2][3]
The genus name is an allusion to Claea, an Oread mountain nymph from Greek mythology. The name is a necessary replacement of Oreias which was preoccupied.[3]
Species
There are currently six valid species:[4]
- Claea dabryi (Sauvage, 1874)
- Claea dafangensis Wang, Luo & Zhou, 2026[5] (Dafang mountain loach)
- Claea minibarba Zhang, Luo, Huang & Zhang, 2024
- Claea scet Lei, He, Huang, Zhou & He, 2025
- Claea tongziensis Zhao, Lv, Huang & Liu 2026
- Claea wulongensis (Chen, Sheraliev, Shu & Peng, 2021
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Claea". FishBase. June 2011 version.
- ↑ Bailly, Nicolas (2014). "Claea Kottelat, 2011". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.
- 1 2 "Family NEMACHEILIDAE Regan 1911 (Stone or Brook Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 2 February 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Claea". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
- ↑ Wang, Jia-Jia; Luo, Tao; Xiao, Mei-Ying; Xie, Xu; Wang, Yu-Lin; Deng, Huai-Qing; Xiao, Ning; Zhou, Jiang (2026). "Claea dafangensis (Cypriniformes, Nemacheilidae), a new cave-dwelling fish from the upper Wujiang River, Guizhou Province, China". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 102 (2): 519–531. Bibcode:2026ZooEv.102..519W. doi:10.3897/zse.102.172325.