| This is a family of the Order Cypriniformes
is one of freshwater species from Eurasia composed by more than 600
species. They have three or more pair of barbels. Some species
are scaleless. Many tend to hide underneath rocks (Nelson 1994).
They have 14 troglobitic representatives. Yang et al. (1994)
mentioned a Oreonectes sp. for a limestone cave near Xiaao, Duan
county, Guanxi, China, yet to be described.
Trajano et al.
(2002) found numerous individuals of the genera Homaloptera and
Balitora in caves of Thailand. In 1997 an epigean individual of
the species Balitora burmanica was collected in a cave in Thailand
(Trajano et al. 2002).
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1. Cryptotora thamicola (Kottelat,
1988)
2. Nemacheilus evezardi Day, 1872
3. Nemacheilus starostini Parin, 1983
4. Nemacheilus troglocataractus Kottelat & Géry, 1989
5. Oreonectes anophthalmus Zheng in Anonymous, 1981
6. Paracobitis longibarbatus Chen, Yang, Sket & Aljancic, 1998
7. Paracobitis smithi (Greenwood, 1976)
8. Schistura jarutanini Kottelat, 1990
9. Schistura oedipus (Kottelat, 1988)
10. Schistura sijuensis Menon, 1987
11. Sundoreonectes tiomanensis Kottelat, 1990
12. Triplophysa gejiuensis (Chu & Chen, 1979)
13. Triplophysa shilinensis (Chu & Yang in Chen, Yang and Xu, 1992)
14. Triplophysa xiangxiensis (Yang, Yuan & Liao, 1986)
15. Triplophysa yunnanensis Yang 1990 |