Vaillantella Explained

Vaillantella, the long-fin loaches, is a small genus of loaches found in Southeast Asia. This genus is the only member of the family Vaillantellidae having been confirmed as such by M. Kottelat in his review of the loaches in 2012.^[1]

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus:

• Vaillantella cinnamomea Kottelat, 1994
• Vaillantella euepiptera (Vaillant, 1902)
• Vaillantella maassi M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1912

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.