| Vaillantella | |
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| Vaillantella euepiptera | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Superfamily: | Cobitoidei |
| Family: | Vaillantellidae Nalbant & Bănărescu, 1977 |
| Genus: | Vaillantella Fowler, 1905 |
| Type species | |
| Nemacheilus euepipterus Vaillant, 1902 | |
Vaillantella, the long-fin loaches, is a small genus of loaches found in Southeast Asia. This genus is the only member of the family Vaillantellidae having been confirmed as such by M. Kottelat in his review of the loaches in 2012.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
- Vaillantella cinnamomea Kottelat, 1994
- Vaillantella euepiptera (Vaillant, 1902)
- Vaillantella maassi M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1912
References
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Vaillantellidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- 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.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Vaillantella". FishBase. December 2012 version.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Vaillantella | |
| Vaillantellidae | |
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