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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: Cyprinoidei

Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Torinae
Genus: Neolissochilus
Species: N. baoshanensis – N. benasi – N. blythii – N. compressus – N. dukai – N. hendersoni – N. heterostomus – N. hexagonolepis – N. hexastichus – N. innominatus – N. longipinnis – N. nigrovittatus – N. paucisquamatus – N. soroides – N. spinulosus – N. stevensonii – N. stracheyi – N. subterraneus – N. sumatranus – N. thienemanni – N. tweediei – N. vittatus
Name

Neolissochilus Rainboth, 1985

Type species: Barbus stracheyi Day, 1871

Etymology: neo (= new), being a new genus of Lissochilus Weber & de Beaufort 1916, now a synonym of Neolissochilus (and a junior homonym of Lissochilus Zittel 1882 (fossil gastropods)] (From: The ETYFish Project)
Synonyms

Lissochilus Weber & de Beaufort, 1916

References

Hoàng, H.Đ., Phạm, H.M., Durand, J-D., Trần, N.T. & Phan, P.Đ. 2015. Mahseers genera Tor and Neolissochilus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from southern Vietnam. Zootaxa 4006(3): 551–568. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4006.3.8. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Khaironizam, M.Z., Zakaria-Ismail, M. & Armbruster, J.W. 2015: Cyprinid fishes of the genus Neolissochilus in Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 3962(1): 139–157. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3962.1.7. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Rainboth, W.J. 1985. Neolissochilus, a new genus of South Asian cyprinid fishes. Beaufortia 35(3): 25–35. Reference page.

Links

Neolissochilus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Neolissochilus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Neolissochilus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names
English: Mahseer
ไทย: ปลาพลวง

Neolissochilus is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae native to freshwater habitats in Asia that are often grouped with the mahseers. The largest reach up to 1.2 m (3.9 ft) in length, but most species are much smaller.[1]
Species

There are currently 33 recognized species in this genus:

Neolissochilus acutirostris (Arunachalam, Sivakumar & Murugan, 2017)[2]
Neolissochilus baoshanensis (X. Y. Chen & J. X. Yang, 1999)
Neolissochilus benasi (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936)
Neolissochilus blanci (Pellegrin & P. W. Fang, 1940)
Neolissochilus blythii (F. Day, 1870)
Neolissochilus bovanicus (F. Day, 1877)
Neolissochilus capudelphinus (Arunachalam, Sivakumar & Murugan, 2017)[2]
Neolissochilus compressus (F. Day, 1870)
Neolissochilus dukai (F. Day, 1878)
Neolissochilus hemispinus (Chen & Chu, 1985)
Neolissochilus hendersoni (Herre, 1940)
Neolissochilus heterostomus (X. Y. Chen & J. X. Yang, 1999)
Neolissochilus hexagonolepis (McClelland, 1839) – copper mahseer
Neolissochilus hexastichus (McClelland, 1839)
Neolissochilus kaladensis Lalramliana, Lalronunga, Kumar & Singh, 2019
Neolissochilus longipinnis (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1916)
Neolissochilus micropthalmus (Arunachalam, Sivakumar & Murugan, 2017)[2]
Neolissochilus minimus (Arunachalam, Sivakumar & Murugan, 2017)[2]
Neolissochilus namlenensis (Nguyen & Doan, 1969)
Neolissochilus nigrovittatus (Boulenger, 1893)
Neolissochilus paucisquamatus (H. M. Smith, 1945)
Neolissochilus pnar (Dahanukar, Sundar, Rangad, Proudlove & Raghavan, 2023)[3]
Neolissochilus qiaojiensis (Wu, 1977)
Neolissochilus soro (Valenciennes, 1842)[4]
Neolissochilus soroides (Duncker, 1904) — Soro brook carp
Neolissochilus spinulosus (McClelland, 1845)
Neolissochilus stevensonii (F. Day, 1870)
Neolissochilus stracheyi (F. Day, 1871)
Neolissochilus subterraneus (Vidthayanon & Kottelat, 2003)
Neolissochilus sumatranus (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1916)
Neolissochilus tamiraparaniensis (Arunachalam, Sivakumar & Murugan, 2017)[2]
Neolissochilus thienemanni (C. G. E. Ahl, 1933)
Neolissochilus tweediei (Herre & Myers, 1937)
Neolissochilus vittatus (H. M. Smith, 1945)

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Neolissochilus in FishBase. October 2016 version.
Arunachalam, M., Sivakumar, P. & Murugan, M. (2017): Descriptions of five new species of Neolissochilus Rainboth, 1985 (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from streams/rivers of the Western Ghats, peninsular India. FishTaxa, 2 (1): 1-27.
Dahanukar, Neelesh; Sundar, Remya L.; Rangad, Duwaki; Proudlove, Graham; Raghavan, Rajeev (2023-06-02). "The world's largest cave fish from Meghalaya, Northeast India, is a new species, Neolissochilus pnar (Cyprinidae, Torinae)". Vertebrate Zoology. 73: 141–152. doi:10.3897/vz.73.e101011. ISSN 2625-8498.
Scharpf, C. (2015). "The authorship of Neolissochilus soro (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae): a correction to Khaironizam et al. (2015)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3986 (4): 499–500. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3986.4.10. PMID 26250205.

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