Nemacheilidae

The Nemacheilidae, or stone loaches, are a family of cypriniform fishes that inhabit stream environments, mostly in Eurasia, with one genus, Afronemacheilus, found in Africa. The family includes about 790 species.

Barbatula is a genus of fish in the family Nemacheilidae native to Europe and Asia. They are found in streams, rivers and lakes, and the genus also includes Europe's only cavefish, which only was discovered in the Danube–Aachtopf system in Germany in 2015.

Oxynoemacheilus is a genus of fish in the family Nemacheilidae found in Europe and Western Asia.

Triplophysa is a genus of fish in the family Nemacheilidae found mainly in and around the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China, as well as inland waters of the larger part of central Asia. They can be distinguished from other genera of Nemacheilidae by marked sexual dimorphism, including the development of nuptial tubercles on breeding males. Currently, the genus is a mixed assemblage of species. Some lineages have been identified and treated as subgenera (Hedinichthys, Indotriplophysa, Labiatophysa, Qinghaichthys and Tarimichthys), but as Wikipedia follows Fishbase for fish species all but Hedinich

Aborichthys is a genus of stone loaches. It can be found in freshwater streams of India, though one species also found in Myanmar.

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Angora loach

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Paracobitis is a genus of Asian stone loaches.

Speonectes tiomanensis is a species of stone loach that is endemic to Malaysia and only known from a cave on Tioman Island. This fish reaches a length of SL. This species is the only known member of its genus, but it was formerly included in Sundoreonectes. It is the only cavefish known from Malaysia.

Starostin's Loach

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species of fish

Physoschistura is a genus of fish in the family Nemacheilidae found mostly in Southeast Asia.

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Acanthocobitis is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish of the stone loach family, Nemacheilidae. Recent work has suggested that the genus be split into two with the former subgenus Paracanthocobitis being raised to a full species, leaving just the type species, Acanthocobitis pavonacea, in the current genus.

Dzihunia is a genus of stone loaches native to Central Asia.

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Neonoemacheilus is a genus of Asian stone loaches.

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.

Paraschistura is a genus of stone loaches most of which occur in Central, South and Western Asia.

Turcinoemacheilus is a genus of loaches in family Nemacheilidae native to Asia.

Mesonoemacheilus is a genus of stone loach endemic to India.

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species of fish

Sundoreonectes is a genus consisting of two species of stone loaches from the southeast Asian island of Borneo.

Draconectes is a genus of troglobitic stone loach known only from a cave on Van Gio Island in Halong Bay, Vietnam. The only species known in the genus is Draconectes narinosus.

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Tuberoschistura is a small genus of stone loaches found in Southeast Asia.

Sectoria is a small genus of stone loaches native to eastern Asia.

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Indoreonectes is a genus of stone loaches native to the Western Ghats in India.

Paranemachilus is a genus of stone loaches endemic to China. They live in subterranean bodies of water such as rivers.

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Hedinichthys is a genus of the stone loaches endemic to China. It has been regarded as a subgenus of Triplophysa.

Homatula is a genus of stone loaches endemic to China.

Eidinemacheilus is a genus of troglobitic fish in the family Nemacheilidae endemic to Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan.

Afronemacheilus is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish of belonging to the family, Nemacheilidae, the stone loaches. The fishes in this genus are endemic to Ethiopia.

Micronemacheilus is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Nemacheilidae, the stone loaches. The loaches in this genus are found in eastern Asia.

Iskandaria is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Nemacheilidae, the stone loaches. The two species in this genus are found in northern Central Asia.

Protonemacheilus longipectoralis is a species of hillstream loach that is endemic to China. It is the only species in its genus.

Paracanthocobitis is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Nemacheilidae, the stone loaches. This genus is known from the Indus basin in Pakistan to the Mekong basin of Cambodia and Laos The type species is Paracanthocobitis zonalternans. Some authorities treat this as a subgenus of Acanthocobitis

Traccatichthys is a genus of stone loaches from southern China and Vietnam.

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