Pangio Explained
Pangio is a genus of small Asian freshwater fish in the true loach family Cobitidae. In earlier taxonomic schemes it was known as Acanthophthalmus. The "kuhli loach" is well-known in the aquarium trade and commonly identified as P. kuhlii, but most individuals actually appear to be P. semicincta.[1]
The type species is Cobitis cinnamomea McClelland 1839, now known as Pangio pangia.[2]
These fish are best represented in Southeast Asia where all but five of the species live,[3] including the Greater Sunda Islands with sixteen species. The five species found outside Southeast Asia are from India and Myanmar.[4] They inhabit a wide range of mostly calm waters such as streams, swamps (often peat swamps) and backwaters, but there are also species in fast-flowing waters, and one, P. bhujia, lives underground.[3]
Species
There are currently 33 recognized species in this genus:[5]
- Pangio agma (M. E. Burridge, 1992)
- Pangio alcoides Kottelat & K. K. P. Lim, 1993
- Pangio alternans Kottelat & K. K. P. Lim, 1993
- Pangio ammophila Britz, Anvar Ali & Raghavan, 2012[6]
- Pangio anguillaris (Vaillant, 1902)
- Pangio apoda Britz & Maclaine, 2007
- Pangio atactos H. H. Tan & Kottelat, 2009
- Pangio bhujia Anoop et al., 2019
- Pangio pathala Sundar, Remya L; Arjun, C.P.; Sidharthan, Arya; Dahanukar, Neelesh; Raghavan, Rajeev[7]
- Pangio bitaimac H. H. Tan & Kottelat, 2009
- Pangio cuneovirgata (Raut, 1957)
- Pangio doriae (Perugia, 1892)
- Pangio elongata Britz & Maclaine, 2007
- Pangio filinaris Kottelat & K. K. P. Lim, 1993
- Pangio fusca (Blyth, 1860)
- Pangio goaensis (Tilak, 1972) (Indian coolie-loach)
- Pangio incognito Kottelat & K. K. P. Lim, 1993
- Pangio kuhlii (Valenciennes, 1846) (Kuhli loach, coolie loach)
- Pangio lidi Hadiaty & Kottelat, 2009
- Pangio longimanus Britz & Kottelat, 2010
- Pangio longipinnis (Menon, 1992)
- Pangio lumbriciformis Britz & Maclaine, 2007
- Pangio malayana (Tweedie, 1956)
- Pangio mariarum (Inger & P. K. Chin, 1962)
- Pangio muraeniformis (de Beaufort, 1933)
- Pangio myersi (Harry, 1949)
- Pangio oblonga (Valenciennes, 1846) (Java loach)
- Pangio pangia (F. Hamilton, 1822)
- Pangio piperata Kottelat & K. K. P. Lim, 1993
- Pangio pulla Kottelat & K. K. P. Lim, 1993
- Pangio robiginosa (Raut, 1957)
- Pangio semicincta (Fraser-Brunner, 1940)
- Pangio shelfordii (Popta, 1903) (Borneo loach)
- Pangio signicauda Britz & Maclaine, 2007
- Pangio superba (T. R. Roberts, 1989)
References
- Web site: Pangio semicincta . SeriouslyFish . 11 October 2019 .
- Web site: Pangio. California Academy of Sciences. Catalog of Fishes. 5 February 2017.
- Anoop, V.K. . R. Britz . C.P. Arjun . N. Dahanukar . R. Raghavan . 2019 . Pangio bhujia, A New, Peculiar Species of Miniature Subterranean Eel Loach Lacking Dorsal and Pelvic Fins from India (Teleostei: Cobitidae) . Zootaxa . 4683 . 1 . 144–150 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4683.1.8 . 31715940 .
- Web site: Four new kuhli loaches described. Clarke. Matt. 2007-03-15. 2011-04-25. Practical Fishkeeping magazine.
- 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.
- Britz, R., Ali, A. & Raghavan, R. (2012): Pangio ammophila, a new species of eel-loach from Karnataka, southern India (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 23 (1): 45-50.
- Sundar . Remya L . Arjun . C.P. . Sidharthan . Arya . Dahanukar . Neelesh . Raghavan . Rajeev . 2022-05-16 . A new diminutive subterranean eel loach species of the genus Pangio (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from Southern India . Zootaxa . 5138 . 1 . 89–97 . 10.11646/zootaxa.5138.1.9 . 1175-5334.
