Lepidocephalichthys

Lepidocephalichthys
Lepidocephalichthys guntea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cobitidae
Genus:	Lepidocephalichthys Bleeker, 1863
Species
See text.

Lepidocephalichthys barbatuloides

Lepidocephalichthys hasselti

Lepidocephalichthys is a genus of ray-finned fish in the Cobitidae family.

Species

There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus:^[1]

• Lepidocephalichthys alkaia Havird & Page, 2010
• Lepidocephalichthys annandalei B. L. Chaudhuri, 1912 (Annandale loach)
• Lepidocephalichthys arunachalensis (A. K. Datta & Barman, 1984)
• Lepidocephalichthys barbatuloides (Bleeker, 1851)
• Lepidocephalichthys berdmorei (Blyth, 1860) (Burmese loach)
• Lepidocephalichthys coromandelensis (Menon, 1992)
• Lepidocephalichthys furcatus (de Beaufort, 1933)
• Lepidocephalichthys goalparensis Pillai & Yazdani, 1976
• Lepidocephalichthys guntea (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Guntea loach)
• Lepidocephalichthys hasselti (Valenciennes, 1846)
• Lepidocephalichthys irrorata Hora, 1921 (Loktak loach)
• Lepidocephalichthys jonklaasi (Deraniyagala, 1956) (Jonklaas' s loach)
• Lepidocephalichthys kranos Havird & Page, 2010
• Lepidocephalichthys lorentzi (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1916)
• Lepidocephalichthys micropogon (Blyth, 1860)
• Lepidocephalichthys thermalis (Valenciennes, 1846) (Common spiny loach)
• Lepidocephalichthys tomaculum Kottelat & K. K. P. Lim, 1992
• Lepidocephalichthys zeppelini Havird & Tangjitjaroen, 2010

References

1. Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.