River loaches (Balitoridae)

The River loaches (Balitoridae) family has 58 species in the Guppies.za.net fish encyclopedia, 22 of which are kept in home aquariums.

Species in this family

• Banded mountain loachAcanthocobitis urophthalmus
• Hillstream loachGastromyzon punctulatus
• Stone loachBarbatula barbatula
• Aborichthys elongatus
• Aborichthys kempi
• Acanthocobitis rubidipinnis
• Beaufortia kweichowensis
• Gastromyzon ctenocephalus
• Homaloptera ogilviei
• Homaloptera orthogoniata
• Homaloptera zollingeri
• Liniparhomaloptera disparis disparis
• Mesonoemacheilus triangularis
• Pseudogastromyzon cheni
• Schistura balteata
• Schistura mahnerti
• Schistura similis
• Vaillantella maassi
• Barred loachNemacheilus fasciatus
• Blind cave loachNemacheilus troglocataractus
• Spotback loachSchistura notostigma
• Western Ghat loachBhavania australis
• Amu-Darya stone loachNemacheilus oxianus
• Anamalai loachHomaloptera montana
• Anatolian loachSeminemacheilus lendlii
• Angora loachOxynoemacheilus angorae
• Arrow loachNemacheilus masyai
• Blind loachNemacheilus smithi
• Bukhara stone loachDzihunia amudarjensis
• Burmese stone loachBalitora burmanica
• Creek loachSchistura beavani
• Eastern crested loachNemacheilus longicaudus
• Eightbarbel loachLefua costata
• Enigmatic loachEllopostoma mystax
• Flat-headed loachOreonectes platycephalus
• Gray loachTriplophysa dorsalis
• Gray's stone loachBalitora brucei
• Grey-banded loachNemacheilus selangoricus
• Issyk-kul naked loachTriplophysa strauchii ulacholicus
• Jianchuan stone loachTriplophysa jianchuanensis
• Kashgarian loachHedinichthys yarkandensis
• Kessler's loachParaschistura kessleri
• Krynicki's loachOxynoemacheilus merga
• Kura loachBarbatula brandtii
• Kuschakewitsch loachIskandaria kuschakewitschi
• Mottled loachAcanthocobitis botia
• Plain thicklip loachTriplophysa labiata
• Severtsov's loachTriplophysa sewerzowi
• Slender stone loachBalitora mysorensis
• Spotted thicklip loachTriplophysa strauchii strauchii
• Stone LoachOxynoemacheilus kaynaki
• Sucker-belly loachPseudogastromyzon myersi
• Tadzhik loachNemacheilus pardalis
• Tibetan stone loachTriplophysa stoliczkai
• Travancore loachTravancoria jonesi
• Turkmenian crested loachMetaschistura cristata
• Turkmenian loachParaschistura sargadensis
• Western crested loachParacobitis malapterura