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Genus of fishes
Acantopsis is a genus of freshwater fishes, commonly known as horseface
loaches or banana-root fishes , in the family
Cobitidae .
[1] Fishes of the genus Acantopsis inhabit sandy riverbeds throughout
Southeast Asia and are most diverse in the
Mekong River in
Thailand ,
Laos , and
Cambodia wherein five species are known to occur.
[2] The common horseface loach,
A. rungthipae , is popular in the aquarium trade.
[3]
The species in the genus are:
[4]
Acantopsis bruinen
Boyd ,
So ,
Thach &
Page , 2018
[5] (Polkadot horseface loach)
Acantopsis dialuzona
van Hasselt , 1823 (Piglet horseface loach)
Acantopsis dinema
Boyd &
Page , 2017
[1] (Peppered horseface loach)
Acantopsis ioa
Boyd &
Page , 2017
[1] (Slender horseface loach)
Acantopsis multistigmatus
Vishwanath &
Laisram , 2005
Acantopsis octoactinotos
Siebert , 1991 (Dwarf horseface loach)
Acantopsis rungthipae
Boyd ,
Nithirojpakdee &
Page , 2017
[1] (Common horseface loach)
Acantopsis spectabilis (
Blyth , 1860) (Spectacular horseface loach)
Acantopsis thiemmedhi
Sontirat , 1999 (Blackspotted horseface loach)
Acantopsis choirorhynchos (
Bleeker , 1854) is considered a synonym of A. dialuzona .
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e Boyd DA, Nithirojpakdee P, Deein G, Vidthayanon C, Grudpan C, Tangjitjaroen W, Pfeiffer JM, Randall ZS, Srisombat T, Page LM (2017).
"Revision of the horseface loaches (Cobitidae, Acantopsis ), with descriptions of three new species from Southeast Asia" . Zootaxa . 4341 (2): 151–192.
^ Nagao Natural Environment Foundation, ed. (2021).
Fishes of the Indochinese Mekong . Tokyo: Nagao Natural Environment Foundation. pp. xii+546 pages.
^ Schäfer, Frank (29 November 2017).
"Acantopsis rungthipae" .
^ Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & R. van der Laan (eds) 2018. Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. (
http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp ). Accessed 28 September 2018.
^ Boyd DA, So N, Thach P, Page LM (2018).
"Acantopsis bruinen , a new species of horseface loach from Southeast Asia (Teleostei: Cobitidae)" . Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters . 29 (1): 1–8.