Formosania
| Formosania | |
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| Formosiana lacustre | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Gastromyzontidae |
| Genus: | Formosania Ōshima, 1919[1] |
| Type species | |
| Formosiana gilberti, a synonym of Formosania lacustre Ōshima, 1919[1]
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Crossostoma Sauvage, 1878 | |
Formosania is a genus of gastromyzontid loaches native to China and Taiwan.
Distribution
Most members of this are endemic to mainland China. Two species, F. lacustris and F. gilberti, are endemic to Taiwan.
Species
There are currently 11 species that has been recognized as belonging to this genus. They are listed below:[2][3]
- Formosania chenyiyui (C. Y. Zheng, 1991)
- Formosania davidi (Sauvage, 1878)
- Formosania fascicauda (Nichols, 1926)
- Formosania fasciolata (H. G. Wang, Z. Y. Fan & Ying Chen, 2006)
- Formosania galericula (X. F. Zhang, 2011)
- Formosania immaculata W. Sun, J.-J. Zhou & J.-Q. Yang, 2023
- Formosania lacustris (Steindachner, 1908)
- Formosania paucisquama (C. Y. Zheng, 1981)
- Formosania stigmata (Nichols, 1926)
- Formosania tangi (Chen, Zhou, Chen & Yang, 2026)[4]
- Formosania tinkhami (Herre, 1934)
References
- ^ a b c Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Gastromyzontidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Formosamia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Formosania". FishBase. March 2024 version.
- ^ Chen, Yang; Zhou, Jia-Jun; Chen, Jing-Chen; Yang, Jin-Quan (2026-03-17). "Formosania tangi, a new species of suck-loach (Cypriniformes, Gastromyzontidae) from the Jiulongjiang River, southeastern China, with taxonomic notes on F. fascicauda". ZooKeys. 1273: 147–166. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1273.184335. ISSN 1313-2970.