Speonectes tiomanensis

Speonectes tiomanensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Speonectes
Kottelat, 2012
Species: S. tiomanensis
Binomial name
Speonectes tiomanensis[2]
(Kottelat, 1990)
Synonyms

Sundoreonectes tiomanensis Kottelat, 1990

Speonectes tiomanensis is a troglobitic species of stone loach endemic to Malaysia where it is only known from a cave on Tioman Island. This fish reaches a length of 5.8 centimetres (2.3 in) SL.[3] This species is the only known member of its genus.

References

  1. ↑ Kottelat, M. 1996. Sundoreonectes tiomanensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Sundoreonectes tiomanensis" in FishBase. December 2012 version.
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