Lefua

Lefua
Lefua echigonia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Lefua
Herzenstein, 1888
Type species
Lefua pleskei
Herzenstein, 1888
Synonyms
  • Elxis Jordan & Fowler, 1903
  • Octonema Herzenstein, 1888

Lefua is a genus of stone loaches native to East Asia. Members of this genus possess nostrils (usually one pair) and barbels around their mouths (usually 4 pairs, with one pair being directly anterior to the nostrils). They generally have column-shaped bodies and are good swimmers.[1]

Species

There are currently eight recognized species in this genus:[2][1][3]

  • Lefua costata (Kessler, 1876) (Eightbarbel loach, Continental eight barbeled loach)
  • Lefua echigonia D. S. Jordan & R. E. Richardson, 1907 (Japanese eight barbeled loach)
  • Lefua nikkonis (D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1903) (ainu eight barbeled loach)
  • Lefua nishimurai Katayama in' Katayama & Sawada, 2024 [4]
  • Lefua pleskei (Herzenstein, 1888)
  • Lefua sayu (Herre & S. Y. Lin, 1936)
  • Lefua tokaiensis Hosoya, Ito & Miyazaki, 2019 (tokai stream eight barbeled loach)
  • Lefua torrentis Hosoya, Ito & Miyazaki, 2018 (stream eight barbeled loach)

References

  1. 1 2 Nakajima, J. (2017). LOACHES OF JAPAN (Natural History and Culture) (3rd ed.). Yama-kei Publishers Co., Ltd. pp. 174–175.
  2. ↑ Kottelat, M. (2012). "Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. No. 26: 1–199. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-02-11.
  3. ↑ Hosoya, K. (2019). Freshwater fish of Japan. Yama-kei Publishers Co., Ltd. pp. 210–212.
  4. ↑ Katayama, Y., Sawada, N. (2024). "Integrative taxonomy revealed a new species of Lefua (Teleostei, Nemacheilidae) from Fukui Prefecture, Japan". Evolutionary Systematics. 8 (2): 247–260. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.8.131002. hdl:2433/292334.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lefua". FishBase.


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