Beaufortia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Cypriniformes
Subordo: Cobitoidei

Familia: Gastromyzontidae
Genus: Beaufortia
Species (11): B. cyclica – B. huangguoshuensis – B. intermedia – B. kweichowensis – B. leveretti – B. liui – B. niulanensis – B. pingi – B. polylepis – B. szechuanensis – B. zebroida

Species inquirenda et incertae sedis (1): B. buas
Name

Beaufortia Hora, 1932: 318

Type species: Gastromyzon leveretti Nichols & Pope, 1927, by original designation.

Etymology: named after Dr. Lieven F. de Beaufort, Dutch ichthyologist.
References
Primary references

Hora, S.L. 1932. Classification, bionomics and evolution of homalopterid fishes. Records of the Indian Museum 12(2): 263–330 + pls. 10-12.
Beaufortia is a genus of gastromyzontid loaches from China and mainland Southeast Asia.
Species

There are currently 14 species recognized in this genus[1] though the generic placement of some and validity of others are questionable:[2]

Beaufortia cyclica Yi-Yu Chen, 1980
Beaufortia fasciolata Nguyen, 2005
Beaufortia huangguoshuensis C. Y. Zheng & W. Zhang, 1987
Beaufortia intermedia W. Q. Tang & D. Z. Wang, 1997
Beaufortia kweichowensis (P. W. Fang, 1931)
Beaufortia leveretti (Nichols & C. H. Pope, 1927)
Beaufortia liui H. W. Chang, 1944
Beaufortia multiocellata Nguyen, 2005
Beaufortia niulanensis Z. M. Chen, Y. F. Huang & J. X. Yang, 2009
Beaufortia pingi (P. W. Fang, 1930)
Beaufortia polylepis Y. R. Chen, 1982
Beaufortia szechuanensis (P. W. Fang, 1930)
Beaufortia triocellata Nguyen, 2005

Beaufortia zebroidus (P. W. Fang, 1930)

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Beaufortia in FishBase. March 2024 version.
Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived February 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.