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Bhavania

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Bhavania
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Balitoridae
Genus: Bhavania
Hora, 1920
Type species
Platycara australis
Jerdon, 1849

Bhavania is a small genus of loaches of the family Balitoridae.

Species

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There is one species definitely assigned to this genus. The placement of B. arunachalensis within the family is uncertain.[1] It is currently included here pending further studies.

References

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  • Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Bhavania". FishBase. June 2011 version.
  1. ^ Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived February 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.