Bhavania Explained

Bhavania is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Balitoridae, the loaches in this family are commonly known as hillstream loaches although this name also refers to the loaches in the family Gastromyzontidae. The loaches in this genus are foiund in southern India.

Species

Bhavania contains three species:

• Bhavania annandalei Hora, 1920
• Balitora arunachalensis (Nath, Dam, Bhutia, Dey & Das, 2007)
• Bhavania australis (Jerdon, 1849) (Western Ghats loach)

B. arunachalensis is regarded as a species inquirenda and incertae sedis.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Maurice Kottelat . Maurice Kottelat . 2012 . Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei . The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . Supplement No. 26 . 1-199 .