Homaloptera

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: Homaloptera
Species: H. bilineata – H. confuzona – H. ocellata – H. ogilviei – H. orthogoniata – H. parclitella
Name

Homaloptera van Hasselt, 1823

Type species: Homaloptera ocellata van der Hoeven, 1830

Etymology: homalos (= level or even); ptera (= fin), referring to “horizontal position of the pectoral and ventral fins” (translation)[1].
Synonyms

Helgia Vinciguerra, 1890

References

Hui, T.H. 2009: A new species of hill stream loach (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from Central Kalimantan, with redescriptions of Homaloptera tateregani Popta and Homaloptera stephensoni Hora. Zootaxa, 2171: 48–64. Abstract & excerpt
Randall, Z.S. & Page, L.M. 2015. On the paraphyly of Homaloptera (Teleostei: Balitoridae) and description of a new genus of hillstream loaches from the Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa 3926(1): 57–86. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.1.2. Reference page.

Homaloptera ocellata (Information about this image)

Homaloptera is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Balitoridae.
Species

There are currently 6 recognized species in this genus:[1]

Homaloptera bilineata Blyth, 1860
Homaloptera confuzona Kottelat, 2000
Homaloptera ocellata van der Hoeven, 1833
Homaloptera ogilviei Alfred, 1967
Homaloptera orthogoniata Vaillant, 1902
Homaloptera parclitella H. H. Tan & P. K. L. Ng, 2005

References

Randall, Z.S. & Page, L.M. (2015): On the paraphyly of Homaloptera (Teleostei: Balitoridae) and description of a new genus of hillstream loaches from the Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa, 3926 (1): 57–86.