Acantopsis

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Vinony's link graph records 8 inbound references to Acantopsis, and connects out to Acantopsis dialuzona, Thailand and Cambodia.

Vinony files it under Acantopsis, Cobitidae and Taxa named by Johan Conrad van Hasselt.

Vinony links it to 19 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

Horseface Loach

KINGDOM

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassTeleostei
OrderCypriniformes
FamilyCobitidae

Habitatbrackish, freshwater

Observations24

Observations recorded3,012,139,120

Vissen Acantopsis is een geslacht van straalvinnige vissen uit de familie van modderkruipers (Cobitidae).[1] Het geslacht is voor het eerst wetenschappelijk beschreven in 1823 door van Hasselt. Soorten Acantopsis choirorhynchos (Bleeker, 1854) Acantopsis arenae (Lin, 1934) Acantopsis dialuzona Van Hasselt, 1823 Acantopsis guttatus Nguyen, 2005 Acantopsis multistigmatus Vishwanath & Laisram, 2005 Acantopsis octoactinotos Siebert, 1991 Acantopsis spectabilis (Blyth, 1860) Acantopsis thiemmedhi Sontirat, 1999 Bronnen, noten en/of referenties ↑ (en) Acantopsis. FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. 12 2011 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2011.

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records: 158
With media: 12
Family: Cobitidae
Collections: TCWC, USNM, AUM, CAS
Recorded in: Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Cobitidae
Image: Horseface loach reduced.jpg

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taxon rank: genus
taxon name: Acantopsis
Commons category: Acantopsis
topic's main category: Category:Acantopsis
taxon common name: ปลาหมู

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Acantopsis is a genus of freshwater fishes, commonly known as horseface loaches or banana-root fishes, in the family Cobitidae. Fishes of the genus Acantopsis inhabit sandy riverbeds throughout Southeast Asia and are most diverse in the Mekong River in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia wherein five species are known to occur. The common horseface loach, A. rungthipae, is popular in the aquarium trade. ==Species== The species in the genus are: Acantopsis bruinen Boyd, So, Thach & Page, 2018 (Polkadot horseface loach) Acantopsis dialuzona van Hasselt, 1823 (Piglet horseface loach) Acantopsis dinema Boyd & Page, 2017 (Peppered horseface loach) Acantopsis ioa Boyd & Page, 2017 (Slender horseface loach) Acantopsis multistigmatus Vishwanath & Laisram, 2005 Acantopsis octoactinotos Siebert, 1991 (Dwarf horseface loach) Acantopsis rungthipae Boyd, Nithirojpakdee & Page, 2017 (Common horseface loach) Acantopsis spectabilis (Blyth, 1860) (Spectacular horseface loach) Acantopsis thiemmedhi Sontirat, 1999 (Blackspotted horseface loach)

Acantopsis choirorhynchos (Bleeker, 1854) is considered a synonym of A. dialuzona.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Acantopsis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.