Bhavania

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: Balitoridae
Genus: Bhavania
Species (2): B. arunachalensis – B. australis
Name

Bhavania Hora, 1920: 202

Type species: Platycara australis Jerdon, 1849, by subsequent designation by Silas (1953: 183).
References
Primary references

Hora, S.L. 1920. Revision of the Indian Homalopteridae and of the genus Psilorhynchus (Cyprinidae). Records of the Indian Museum 19(pt 5): 195–215, pls. 10–11.

Bhavania is a small genus of loaches of the family Balitoridae.
Species

There is one species definitely assigned to this genus. The placement of B. arunachalensis within the family is uncertain.[1] It is currently included here pending further studies.

Bhavania arunachalensis Nath, Dam, Bhutia, Dey & D. N. Das, 2007 (this species is species inquirenda and incertae sedis within Balitoridae)
Bhavania australis (Jerdon, 1849) (Western Ghat loach)

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Bhavania in FishBase. June 2011 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.