Lefua

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 echigoniaD. S. Jordan & R. E. Richardson, 1907 (Japanese eight barbeled loach)
Lefua nikkonis(D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1903) (ainu eight barbeled loach)
Lefua nishimurai(Katayama, Y., & Sawada, N. (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 2Nakajima, J. (2017). LOACHES OF JAPAN (Natural History and Culture) (3rd ed.). Yama-kei Publishers Co., Ltd. pp. 174–175.
↑Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei).Archived 2013-02-11 at the Wayback MachineThe Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
↑Hosoya, K. (2019). Freshwater fish of Japan. Yama-kei Publishers Co., Ltd. pp. 210–212.
↑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.). "Especies del género Lefua " . FishBase .

[sname''.nakajima''-1] 1 2Nakajima, 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).Archived 2013-02-11 at the Wayback MachineThe Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.

[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)

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