Balitora
Balitora is a genus of fish in the family Balitoridae endemic to Asia.[1]
| Balitora | |
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| Balitora brucei | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Actinopterygii | 
| Order: | Cypriniformes | 
| Family: | Balitoridae | 
| Genus: | Balitora J. E. Gray, 1830  | 
| Type species | |
| Balitora brucei Gray, 1830  | |
Species
    
There are currently 20 recognized species in this genus:
- Balitora annamitica Kottelat, 1988
 - Balitora brucei J. E. Gray, 1830 (Gray's stone loach)
 - Balitora burmanica Hora, 1932 (Burmese stone loach)
 - Balitora chipkali Kumkar, U. Katwate, Raghavan & Dahanukar, 2016 (Chipkali stone loach) [2]
 - Balitora eddsi Conway & Mayden, 2010
 - Balitora jalpalli Raghavan, Tharian, Ali, Jadhav & Dahanukar, 2013 [3]
 - Balitora kwangsiensis (P. W. Fang, 1930)
 - Balitora lancangjiangensis (C. Y. Zheng, 1980)
 - Balitora laticauda Bhoite, Jadhav & Dahanukar, 2012 [4]
 - Balitora longibarbata (Y. R. Chen, 1982)
 - Balitora ludongensis S. W. Liu & X. Y. Chen, 2012 [5]
 - Balitora meridionalis Kottelat, 1988
 - Balitora mysorensis Hora, 1941 (Slender stone loach)
 - Balitora nantingensis X. Y. Chen, G. H. Cui & J. X. Yang, 2005 (species inquirenda in Balitora)
 - Balitora nigrocorpa Nguyen, 2005
 - Balitora nujiangensis Zhang & Zheng, 1983
 - Balitora tchangi Zheng, 1982
 - Balitora vanlani Nguyen, 2005
 - Balitora vanlongi Nguyen, 2005
 
References
    
- Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived 2016-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
 - Kumkar, P., Katwate, U., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. (2016): Balitora chipkali, a new species of stone loach (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from the northern Western Ghats of India, with a note on the distribution of B. laticauda. Zootaxa, 4138 (1): 155–170.
 - Raghavan, R., Tharian, J., Ali, A., Jadhav, S. & Dahanukar, N. (2013): Balitora jalpalli, a new species of stone loach (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) from Silent Valley, southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 5 (5): 3921–3934.
 - Bhoite, S., Jadhav, S. & Dahanukar, N. (2012): Balitora laticauda, a new species of stone loach (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) from Krishna River, northern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 4 (11): 3038–3049.
 - Liu, S.-W., Zhu, Y., Wei, R.-f. & Chen, X.-Y. (2012): A new species of the genus Balitora (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from Guangxi, China. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 93 (3): 369-375.
 
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