Bhavania Explained

Bhavania is a small genus of loaches of the family Balitoridae.

Species

There is one species definitely assigned to this genus. The placement of B. arunachalensis within the family is uncertain.^[1] It is currently included here pending further studies.

• Bhavania arunachalensis Nath, Dam, Bhutia, Dey & D. N. Das, 2007 (this species is species inquirenda and incertae sedis within Balitoridae)
• Bhavania australis (Jerdon, 1849) (Western Ghat loach)

Notes and References

1. 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.