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Balitoridae

LC control no.sh 95001332
LC classificationQL638.B153
Topical headingBalitoridae
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Variant(s)Hillstream loaches
Homalopteridae
Loaches, Hillstream
Loaches, Mountain
Loaches, River
Mountain loaches
River loaches
See alsoCypriniformes
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Found inWork cat.: Menon, A.G.K. The fauna of India and the adjacent countries. Pisces, 1987: v. IV, Teleostei--Cobitoidea, Part I, Homalopteridae, p. v ("An attempt has been made to recognize, describe, and classify the mountain loaches of the family Homalopteridae ...") p. 1 ("The Homalopterids are small loach-like fishes found in torrential streams of southern and eastern Asia and the Indo-Australian Archepelago Ysic, excluding Sulawesi and New Guinea.")
Eschmeyer, W.N. Catalog of the genera of Recent fishes, 1990: p. 447 (Family Balitoridae (Hillstream loaches) = Homalopteridae)
Nelson, J.S. Fishes of the world, 1994: p. 139 (Family Balitoridae (Homalopteridae)--river loaches) p. 140 (Homalopteridae is a junior synonym of Balitoridae, judgement confirmed by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature)
Syn. class. liv. org.: v. 2, p. 877 (Homalopteridae. Hillstream loaches)