Homatula

Homatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Homatula
Nichols, 1925
Type species
Nemachilus potanini
Günther, 1896[1]

Homatula is a genus of stone loaches endemic to China.

Species

These are the currently recognized species in this genus:[2][3]

  • Homatula acuticephala (W. Zhou & J. C. He, 1993)
  • Homatula anguillioides (S. Q. Zhu & S. H. Wang, 1985)
  • Homatula anteridorsalis Li, Che & Zhou, 2019
  • Homatula berezowskii (Günther, 1896)
  • Homatula change Endruweit, 2015 [4]
  • Homatula coccinocola Endruweit, Min & Yang, 2018
  • Homatula cryptoclathrata Li, Che & Zhou, 2019
  • Homatula disparizona R. Min, J. X. Yang & X. Y. Chen, 2013[5]
  • Homatula dotui Nguyen, Wu, Cao & Zhang, 2021
  • Homatula erhaiensis (S. Q. Zhu & W. X. Cao, 1988)
  • Homatula gelao Xiao, 2025
  • Homatula geminusclathrata Li, Yang, Guo & Zhou, 2022
  • Homatula guanheensis Zhou, Ma, Wang, Tang, Meng & Nie, 2021
  • Homatula laxiclathra J. H. Gu & E. Zhang, 2012[6]
  • Homatula longibarbata Li, Yang, Guo & Zhou, 2022
  • Homatula longidorsalis (J. X. Yang, Y. R. Chen & Kottelat, 1994)
  • Homatula microcephala Li, Yang, Guo & Zhou, 2022
  • Homatula nanpanjiangensis (R. Min, X. Y. Chen & J. X. Yang, 2010)
  • Homatula nigra Li, Che & Zhou, 2019
  • Homatula oligolepis (W. X. Cao & S. Q. Zhu, 1989)
  • Homatula oxygnathus (Regan, 1908)
  • Homatula potanini (Günther, 1896)
  • Homatula pycnolepis Y. T. Hu & E. Zhang, 2010
  • Homatula robusta Min, Zhao, Shi & Yang, 2022
  • Homatula shexiang Cao, Liu, Zeng & Zhang, 2025
  • Homatula submarginata Endruweit, 2025
  • Homatula tigris Che, Dao, Chen, Pan, Hua, Liang & Wang, 2023
  • Homatula variegata (Dabry de Thiersant, 1874)
  • Homatula wenshanensis C. Li, H. Yang, W. Li & T. Liu, 2017
  • Homatula wujiangensis R. H. Ding & Q. X. Deng, 1990
  • Homatula wuliangensis R. Min, J. X. Yang & X. Y. Chen, 2012[7]
  • Homatula xiangzhi Cao, Liu, Zeng & Zhang, 2025

References

  1. ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Nemacheilidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  2. ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Homatula". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  3. ^ Kottelat, M. (2012). "Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (Suppl. No. 26): 1–199. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-02-11.
  4. ^ Endruweit, M. (2015). "Homatula change, a new nemacheilid loach from the upper Black River basin in Yunnan, China (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)". Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 26 (1): 65–72.
  5. ^ Min, R.; Yang, J.-X.; Chen, X.-Y. (2013). "Homatula disparizona, a new species of loach from the Red River drainage in China (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)". Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 23 (4): 351–355.
  6. ^ Gu, J.-H.; Zhang, E. (2012). "Homatula laxiclathra (Teleostei: Balitoridae), a new species of nemacheiline loach from the Yellow River drainage in Shaanxi Province, northern China". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 94 (4): 591–599. Bibcode:2012EnvBF..94..591G. doi:10.1007/s10641-011-9965-1.
  7. ^ Min, R.; Yang, J.-X.; Chen, X.-Y. (2012). "Homatula wuliangensis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae), a new loach from Yunnan, China" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3586: 313–318. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3586.1.29.