Speonectes tiomanensis

Speonectes tiomanensis

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Speonectes
Species:
S. tiomanensis
Binomial name
Speonectes tiomanensis
(Kottelat, 1990)[2]
Synonyms
  • Sundoreonectes tiomanensis Kottelat, 1990

Speonectes tiomanensis is a species of stone loach that is endemic to Malaysia and only known from a cave on Tioman Island. This fish reaches a length of 5.8 centimetres (2.3 in) SL.[3] This species is the only known member of its genus, but it was formerly included in Sundoreonectes. It is the only cavefish known from Malaysia.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ahmad, A.B. (2020). "Speonectes tiomanensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T21168A89825048. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T21168A89825048.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2012). "Sundoreonectes tiomanensis" in FishBase. December 2012 version.
  4. ^ Romero, A., editor (2001). The Biology of Hypogean Fishes. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. ISBN 978-1402000768