Hemimyzon Explained

Hemimyzon is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Balitoridae.^[1]

Species

There are currently 15 recognized species in this genus:

• Hemimyzon confluens Kottelat, 2000
• Hemimyzon ecdyonuroides Freyhof & Herder, 2002
• Hemimyzon formosanus (Boulenger, 1894)
• Hemimyzon khonensis Kottelat, 2000
• Hemimyzon macroptera C. Y. Zheng, 1982
• Hemimyzon megalopseos Z. Y. Li & Y. R. Chen, 1985
• Hemimyzon nanensis A. Doi & Kottelat, 1998
• Hemimyzon nujiangensis (W. Zhang & C. Y. Zheng, 1983)
• Hemimyzon papilio Kottelat, 1998
• Hemimyzon pengi (S. Y. Huang, 1982)
• Hemimyzon pumilicorpora C. Y. Zheng & W. Zhang, 1987
• Hemimyzon sheni I. S. Chen & L. S. Fang, 2009
• Hemimyzon taitungensis C. S. Tzeng & S. C. Shen, 1982
• Hemimyzon tchangi C. Y. Zheng, 1982
• Hemimyzon yaotanensis (P. W. Fang, 1931)
• Hemimyzon yushanensis I. S. Chen, 2022

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.