Beaufortia (fish)
Beaufortia is a genus of gastromyzontid loaches from China and mainland Southeast Asia.
| Beaufortia | |
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| Beaufortia kweichowensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Gastromyzontidae |
| Genus: | Beaufortia Hora, 1932 |
| Type species | |
| Gastromyzon leveretti Nichols & Pope, 1927 | |
| Species | |
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14, see text | |
Species
There are currently 16 species recognized in this genus though the generic placement of some and validity of others are questionable:[1]
- Beaufortia buas (Đ. Y. Mai, 1978) (species inquirenda in Beaufortia)
- Beaufortia cyclica Yi-Yu Chen, 1980
- Beaufortia daon (Đ. Y. Mai, 1978)
- Beaufortia elongata (Đ. Y. Mai, 1978)
- Beaufortia huangguoshuensis C. Y. Zheng & W. Zhang, 1987
- Beaufortia intermedia W. Q. Tang & D. Z. Wang, 1997
- Beaufortia kweichowensis (P. W. Fang, 1931)
- Beaufortia leveretti (Nichols & C. H. Pope, 1927)
- Beaufortia liui H. W. Chang, 1944
- Beaufortia loos (Đ. Y. Mai, 1978) (species inquirenda in Beaufortia)
- Beaufortia niulanensis Z. M. Chen, Y. F. Huang & J. X. Yang, 2009
- Beaufortia pingi (P. W. Fang, 1930)
- Beaufortia polylepis Y. R. Chen, 1982
- Beaufortia szechuanensis (P. W. Fang, 1930)
- Beaufortia yunnanensis (W. X. Li, Zong-Min Lu & W. N. Mao, 1988) (species inquirenda in Beaufortia)
- Beaufortia zebroidus (P. W. Fang, 1930)
References
- 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.
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