Indoreonectes

Indoreonectes is a genus of stone loaches native to the Western Ghats in India.

Indoreonectes
Indoreonectes evezardi from the cave-adapted population
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Nemacheilidae
Genus:	Indoreonectes Rita & Nalbant, 1978
Type species
Oreonectes (Indoreonectes) keralensis Rita, Bănărescu & Nalbant 1978

Species

There are possibly four species in this genus,^[1] though FishBase only recognizes one:^[2]

• Indoreonectes evezardi (F. Day, 1872)
• Indoreonectes neeleshi Kumkar, Pise, Gorule, Verma & Kalous, 2021^[3]
• Indoreonectes rajeevi Kumkar, Pise, Gorule, Verma & Kalous, 2021^[3]
• Indoreonectes telanganaensis Prasad, C. Srinivasulu, A. Srinivasulu, Anoop & Dahanukar, 2020^[4]

References

1. Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived 2013-02-11 at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Indoreonectes". FishBase. February 2024 version.
3. Kumkar, Pradeep; Pise, Manoj; Gorule, Pankaj; Verma, Chandani; Kalous, Lukáš (16 August 2021). "Two new species of the hillstream loach genus Indoreonectes from the northern Western Ghats of India (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)". Vertebrate Zoology. 71: 517–533. doi:10.3897/vz.71.e62814.
4. Prasad, Kante Krishna; Srinivasulu, Chelmala; Srinivasulu, Aditya; Anoop, V.K.; Dahanukar, Neelesh (2020-11-13). "Indoreonectes telanganaensis, a new species of loach (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from the Godavari Basin of India". Zootaxa. 4878 (2): 335–348. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.7. ISSN 1175-5334.