Ellopostoma is a small genus of loaches native to Southeast Asia.[1] This is the only genus in the family Ellopostomatidae, having been confirmed as being in a family of its own by M. Kottelat in his review of the loaches in 2012.[2]

Ellopostoma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Ellopostomatidae
Bohlen & Šlechtová, 2009
Genus: Ellopostoma
Vaillant, 1902
Type species
Aperioptus megalomycter
Vaillant, 1902

Species

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The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Ellopostoma". FishBase. December 2012 version.
  2. ^ Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived February 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.