Jinshaia

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: Jinshaia
Species (2): J. abbreviata – J. sinensis
Name

Jinshaia Kottelat & Chu, 1988: 191

Type species: Psilorhynchus sinensis Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874, by original designation.
References
Primary references

Kottelat, M. & Chu, X.-L. 1988. A synopsis of Chinese balitorine loaches (Osteichthyes: Homalopteridae) with comments on their phylogeny and description of a new genus. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 95(1): 181–201.

Jinshaia is a genus of hillstream loaches endemic to China.
Species

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

Jinshaia abbreviata (Günther, 1892)
Jinshaia niulanjiangensis W. X. Li, W. N. Mao & Zong-Min Lu, 1998 (species inquirenda in this genus)
Jinshaia sinensis (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874)

References

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.