Acantopsis is a genus of freshwater fishes, commonly known as horseface loaches or banana-root fishes, in the family Cobitidae.[1] Fishes of the genus Acantopsis inhabit sandy riverbeds throughout Southeast Asia and are most diverse in the Mekong River in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia wherein five species are known to occur.[2] The common horseface loach, A. rungthipae, is popular in the aquarium trade.[3]
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| Acantopsis rungthipae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cobitidae |
| Genus: | Acantopsis van Hasselt, 1823 |
| Type species | |
| Acantopsis dialuzona van Hasselt, 1823
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Species
editThe species in the genus are:[4]
- Acantopsis bruinen Boyd, So, Thach & Page, 2018[5] (Polkadot horseface loach)
- Acantopsis dialuzona van Hasselt, 1823 (Piglet horseface loach)
- Acantopsis dinema Boyd & Page, 2017[1] (Peppered horseface loach)
- Acantopsis ioa Boyd & Page, 2017[1] (Slender horseface loach)
- Acantopsis multistigmatus Vishwanath & Laisram, 2005
- Acantopsis octoactinotos Siebert, 1991 (Dwarf horseface loach)
- Acantopsis rungthipae Boyd, Nithirojpakdee & Page, 2017[1] (Common horseface loach)
- Acantopsis spectabilis (Blyth, 1860) (Spectacular horseface loach)
- Acantopsis thiemmedhi Sontirat, 1999 (Blackspotted horseface loach)
Acantopsis choirorhynchos (Bleeker, 1854) is considered a synonym of A. dialuzona.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Boyd DA, Nithirojpakdee P, Deein G, Vidthayanon C, Grudpan C, Tangjitjaroen W, Pfeiffer JM, Randall ZS, Srisombat T, Page LM (2017). "Revision of the horseface loaches (Cobitidae, Acantopsis), with descriptions of three new species from Southeast Asia". Zootaxa. 4341 (2): 151–192.
- ^ Nagao Natural Environment Foundation, ed. (2021). Fishes of the Indochinese Mekong. Tokyo: Nagao Natural Environment Foundation. pp. xii+546 pages.
- ^ Schäfer, Frank (29 November 2017). "Acantopsis rungthipae".
- ^ Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & R. van der Laan (eds) 2018. Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. (http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp). Accessed 28 September 2018.
- ^ Boyd DA, So N, Thach P, Page LM (2018). "Acantopsis bruinen, a new species of horseface loach from Southeast Asia (Teleostei: Cobitidae)". Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 29 (1): 1–8.