Neolissochilus Explained

Neolissochilus is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae native to freshwater habitats in Asia that are often grouped with the mahseers. The largest reach up to in length, but most species are much smaller.

Species

There are currently 33 recognized species in this genus:

• Neolissochilus acutirostris (Arunachalam, Sivakumar & Murugan, 2017)^[1]
• Neolissochilus baoshanensis (X. Y. Chen & J. X. Yang, 1999)
• Neolissochilus benasi (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936)
• Neolissochilus blanci (Pellegrin & P. W. Fang, 1940)
• Neolissochilus blythii (F. Day, 1870)
• Neolissochilus bovanicus (F. Day, 1877)
• Neolissochilus capudelphinus (Arunachalam, Sivakumar & Murugan, 2017)^[1]
• Neolissochilus compressus (F. Day, 1870)
• Neolissochilus dukai (F. Day, 1878)
• Neolissochilus hemispinus (Chen & Chu, 1985)
• Neolissochilus hendersoni (Herre, 1940)
• Neolissochilus heterostomus (X. Y. Chen & J. X. Yang, 1999)
• Neolissochilus hexagonolepis (McClelland, 1839) – copper mahseer
• Neolissochilus hexastichus (McClelland, 1839)
• Neolissochilus kaladensis Lalramliana, Lalronunga, Kumar & Singh, 2019
• Neolissochilus longipinnis (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1916)
• Neolissochilus micropthalmus (Arunachalam, Sivakumar & Murugan, 2017)^[1]
• Neolissochilus minimus (Arunachalam, Sivakumar & Murugan, 2017)^[1]
• Neolissochilus namlenensis (Nguyen & Doan, 1969)
• Neolissochilus nigrovittatus (Boulenger, 1893)
• Neolissochilus paucisquamatus (H. M. Smith, 1945)
• Neolissochilus pnar (Dahanukar, Sundar, Rangad, Proudlove & Raghavan, 2023)^[2]
• Neolissochilus qiaojiensis (Wu, 1977)
• Neolissochilus soro (Valenciennes, 1842)^[3]
• Neolissochilus soroides (Duncker, 1904) — Soro brook carp
• Neolissochilus spinulosus (McClelland, 1845)
• Neolissochilus stevensonii (F. Day, 1870)
• Neolissochilus stracheyi (F. Day, 1871)
• Neolissochilus subterraneus (Vidthayanon & Kottelat, 2003)
• Neolissochilus sumatranus (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1916)
• Neolissochilus tamiraparaniensis (Arunachalam, Sivakumar & Murugan, 2017)^[1]
• Neolissochilus thienemanni (C. G. E. Ahl, 1933)
• Neolissochilus tweediei (Herre & Myers, 1937)
• Neolissochilus vittatus (H. M. Smith, 1945)

Notes and References

1. Arunachalam, M., Sivakumar, P. & Murugan, M. (2017): Descriptions of five new species of Neolissochilus Rainboth, 1985 (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from streams/rivers of the Western Ghats, peninsular India. FishTaxa, 2 (1): 1-27.
2. Dahanukar . Neelesh . Sundar . Remya L. . Rangad . Duwaki . Proudlove . Graham . Raghavan . Rajeev . 2023-06-02 . The world's largest cave fish from Meghalaya, Northeast India, is a new species, Neolissochilus pnar (Cyprinidae, Torinae) . Vertebrate Zoology . en . 73 . 141–152 . 10.3897/vz.73.e101011 . 2625-8498. free .
3. Scharpf, C. . 2015 . The authorship of Neolissochilus soro (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae): a correction to Khaironizam et al. (2015) . Zootaxa. 3986 . 4. 499–500. 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.4.10 . 26250205 .