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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: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Nemacheilus
Species: N. anguilla – N. banar – N. chrysolaimos – N. cleopatra – N. corica – N. elegantissimus – N. fasciatus – N. keralensis – N. longipectoralis – N. longipinnis – N. marang – N. monilis – N. papillos – N. paucimaculatus – N. pfeifferae – N. selangoricus – N. spiniferus – N. stigmofasciatus – N. tebo – N. tuberigum
References

Arunachalam, M.; Muralidharan, M. 2009: Nemacheilus stigmofasciatus, a new species of nemacheiline loach (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) from the Western Ghats, India. Journal of threatened taxa, 1: 147–150. ISSN: 0974-7907 (online) | 0974-7893 (print) PDF
Hadiaty, R.K.; Kottelat, M. 2009: Nemacheilus tebo, a new loach from Sangkulirang karst, East Kalimantan, Indonesia (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Raffles bulletin of zoology, 57: 119–125. PDF
Hadiaty, R.K.; Kottelat, M. 2010: Nemacheilus marang, a new loach (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Sangkulirang karst, eastern Borneo. Zootaxa, 2557: 39–48. Preview
Hadiaty, R.K.; Siebert, D.J. 2001: A new species of loach, genus Nemacheilus (Osteichthyes, Balitoridae) from Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (zoology), 67: 183–189.
Tan, H.H.; Kottelat, M. 2009: The fishes of the Batang Hari drainage, Sumatra, with description of six new species. Ichthyological exploration of freshwaters, 20: 13–69. ISSN: 0936-9902 Abstract

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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Nemacheilus is a genus of stone loaches native to Asia.
Species

There are currently 52 recognized species in this genus:[1][2]

Nemacheilus anguilla Annandale, 1919 (eel loach)
Nemacheilus arenicolus Kottelat, 1998
Nemacheilus banar Freyhof & Serov, 2001
Nemacheilus binotatus H. M. Smith, 1933
Nemacheilus chrysolaimos (Valenciennes, 1846)
Nemacheilus cleopatra Freyhof & Serov, 2001
Nemacheilus corica (F. Hamilton, 1822) (incertae sedis, most likely in this genus)
Nemacheilus doonensis (Tilak & Husain, 1977)
Nemacheilus drassensis (Tilak, 1990)
Nemacheilus elegantissimus P. K. Chin & Samat, 1992
Nemacheilus fasciatus (Valenciennes, 1846) (Barred loach)
Nemacheilus guentheri Day, 1867
Nemacheilus huapingensis Wu & Wu, 1992
Nemacheilus inglisi Hora, 1935
Nemacheilus jaklesii (Bleeker, 1852) (species inquirenda in this genus)
Nemacheilus kaimurensis Husain & Tilak, 1998 (incertae sedis, most likely in this genus)
Nemacheilus kapuasensis Kottelat, 1984
Nemacheilus keralensis (Rita, Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1978) (Kerala loach)
Nemacheilus lactogeneus Roberts, 1989
Nemacheilus longipectoralis Popta, 1905
Nemacheilus longipinnis C. G. E. Ahl, 1922
Nemacheilus longistriatus Kottelat, 1990
Nemacheilus lunanensis Li & Xia, 1987
Nemacheilus marang Hadiaty & Kottelat, 2010
Nemacheilus masyae H. M. Smith, 1933 (Arrow loach)
Nemacheilus menoni Zacharias & Minimol, 1999
Nemacheilus monilis Hora, 1921 (incertae sedis, most likely in this genus)
Nemacheilus olivaceus Boulenger, 1894
Nemacheilus ornatus Kottelat, 1990
Nemacheilus oxianus Kessler, 1877 (Amu-Darya stone loach)
Nemacheilus pallidus Kottelat, 1990
Nemacheilus papillos H. H. Tan & Kottelat, 2009
Nemacheilus paucimaculatus Bohlen & Šlechtová, 2011[3]
Nemacheilus periyarensis Madhusoodana Kurup & Radhakrishnan, 2005
Nemacheilus petrubanarescui Menon, 1984
Nemacheilus pfeifferae (Bleeker, 1853)
Nemacheilus platiceps Kottelat, 1990
Nemacheilus pulchellus Day, 1873
Nemacheilus rueppelli (Sykes, 1839) (Mongoose loach)
Nemacheilus saravacensis Boulenger, 1894
Nemacheilus selangoricus Duncker, 1904 (Grey-banded loach)
Nemacheilus shehensis Menon, 1987
Nemacheilus shuangjiangensis (S. Q. Zhu & S. H. Wang, 1985)
Nemacheilus singhi (Menon, 1987)
Nemacheilus spiniferus Kottelat, 1984
Nemacheilus stigmofasciatus Arunachalam & Muralidharan, 2009 (incertae sedis, most likely in this genus)
Nemacheilus subfusca (McClelland, 1839)
Nemacheilus tebo Hadiaty & Kottelat, 2009
Nemacheilus triangularis Day, 1865
Nemacheilus troglocataractus Kottelat & Géry, 1989 (Blind cave loach)
Nemacheilus tuberigum Hadiaty & Siebert, 2001
Nemacheilus yingjiangensis Zhu, 1982
Nemacheilus zonatus Page, Pfeiffer, Suksri, Randall & Boyd, 2020[4]


References

Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Nemacheilus in FishBase. February 2024 version.
Bohlen, J. & Šlechtová, V. (2011): Nemacheilus paucimaculatus, a new species of loach from the southern Malay Peninsula (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 59 (2): 201–204.
Page, Lawrence M.; Pfeiffer, John M.; Suksri, Siriwan; Randall, Zachary S.; Boyd, David A. (2020). "Variation in the Arrow Loach, Nemacheilus masyae (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae), in Mainland Southeast Asia with Description of a New Species". Copeia. 108 (2): 392–402. doi:10.1643/CI-19-305. ISSN 0045-8511.

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